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With all friendship, Claude Monet
After twelve years of unrest, the Dreyfus Affair ended and France’s anti-Semitic fervor subsided, but the Impressionist movement was damaged beyond repair. The affair polarized the Impressionists, forced old tensions to the surface, and incited new arguments such that political differences finally triumphed over shared aesthetics, forcing a change in artistic trends and ending the era of the Impressionists.