Giverny, France: Monet's Grave

Seeing how Claude Monet spent 40 years in Giverny, it's appropriate that he was laid to rest there too. His grave is about a 10-minute walk from his house, which takes the visitor from one end of the village to the other.

Monet died of lung cancer in 1926, the last of those in the family plot to pass away. As for the others, there's an interesting story there. Monet's wife Alice is there, as is Alice's first husband - Ernest Hoschedé. Ernest was the first of the group to die, and his children - who were raised by Monet - wanted his grave to be close by.

I find myself wondering what Ernest's reaction to this might have been.

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