Paris world's fair, 1855, a panorama of French art -- Monet and Boudin, Manet and Degas, l'academie Suisse, Atelier of Courbet -- Gleyre's studio, salon des refuses and the reorganization of the ecole des beaux-arts -- Barbizon and its painters, New salons, successes and disappointments -- Zola as an art critic, another world's fair, plans for a group exhibition, more difficulties for Monet -- Cafe guerbois, Japanese prints, "la Grenouillere" -- Salon of 1870, Franco-Prussian War and the "commune", Monet and Pissarro in London