The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)
Tate Britain, 2 November 2017 – 7 May 2018
“France! what horror! to see a star fade in the heavens!/ I feel the lugubrious ascent of disgrace./
Dismal anguish! one curse falls, a new one rises.” wrote Victor Hugo in his series of poems entitled L'Année terrible. The Terrible Year, 1870-1871, saw two sieges of Paris, the rise and fall of the Commune, the civil war, the massacring – during what became known as the semaine sanglante, the Bloody Week, some 25,000 Parisians w