Louis Edmond Duranty

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Louis Edmond Duranty (18331880) was a prolific novelist and art critic.

Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. A friend of Edgar Degas, he was a frequent visitor to the Café Guerbois.

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