Adrien Goetz, art historian, writer, and lecturer at the Sorbonne, has written several books, including a volume on Giverny. He contributes to numerous reviews and publications and his arts column has run in Le Figaro since 2008. Hugues Gall, director of the Fondation Claude Monet since 2008 and a member of the Giverny Museum of Impressionism, is former director of the Opéra de Paris and the Grand Théâtre in Geneva. Francis Hammond specializes in lifestyle photography; his work has appeared in many books, including Historic Houses of Paris (Flammarion, 2010) and Versailles: A Private Invitation (Flammarion, 2011).