Today my husband and I went into the District to see an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. We wanted to see the paintings of Eugene Boudin who was a famous French painter and the mentor of Claude Monet. We liked the paintings very much. Most of them were scenes of the ocean in Normandy or Brittany.
What we found very interesting and amusing was that in the mid-19th century, the French went to the beach fully clothed. The men wore suits and hats and the women wore long, full dresses and hats. They would bring chairs along and sit on the sand, talk, and watch the sea. They must have suffered enormously from the heat!
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