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The section also assesses the millennium's worst year as 1347 (bubonic plague comes to the Continent) and its best as 1789 (French Revolution, George Washington takes office, the factory system is born, bourbon is invented, Mozart writes two piano sonatas, and Beethoven writes two preludes).
An early cluster of smallish water lily paintings, two on circular canvases, that Monet exhibited in Paris in 1909 are almost saccharine in their placid beauty, visual equivalents of some of Debussy's prettier preludes.