Shimmering reflections of Monet are revisited

PARIS — Poor Claude Monet. He's everywhere and invisible, passe for more than a century. Is it too late to recapture some of the shock and thrill that caused horrified Parisians in the 1870s to perceive his work as "leprous"?

Amazingly, it’s not.The Monet show at the Grand Palais is a start. The biggest art spectacle in Europe this autumn, with some 160 paintings, it is the first chance to see the whole sweep of his work in some time. The French are treating it like a national celebration.

The exhibition is ravishing.