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Sue Roe: The Private Lives of the Impresionists (Harper Collins, New York, 2006) I assume the title is a marketing department masterpiece. In actuality the book is a well researched social history of the popularizing sort. Roe's confusion (p. 176) of L'Assommoir and Nana, however, leads one to suspect she might not have actually read all the books she cites.