TOR: Assassin Hunter, by Billy Bob Buttons

[nwhyte]

Second paragraph of third chapter:The French commander, I see, enjoys his comforts. In the corner of the tent there's a bed with a crowning hill of silk pillows, and just by it on a French mahogany desk there sits a bottle of Champagne: a Veuve Clicquot, 1855, a very good year. I spot a six foot candelabra cactus in a pot and on the wall, next to a

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[resonant]

Wait - Monet just made traditional paintings with FINE brush strokes and didn't start making his characteristic landscape paintings until he went to England and studied the landscape art of Constable and Turner - AFTER the start of the Franco-Prussian War!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet#/media/File:Monet,_Claude_-_View_At_Rouelles,_Le_Havre_(1858).jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet#/media/File:Claude_Monet_024.jpg

It's like he was just throwing out period names!