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Paris 1874: Abécédaire impressionniste. Archéologie subaquatique is an art historian andIn April 1874 in Paris, a group of daring artists organized the first Impressionist exhibition in the former studio of the photographer Nadar. Among them were Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Czanne, Pissarro, and Sisley, who sought to free themselves from the rules of the official Salon and impose a new way of painting by exhibiting their works themselves. "Amitis", "Cache cache", "Parisienne", "Plein air", "Scandale", "Vie moderne": the fifty or so