I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

Total devastation. The grand piano was found in the street in 16 pieces. The long-tail [fishing] boats landed in the ground-floor rooms.