Manet, who, despite himself, became the leader of the young Impressionists, proved to be the most Parisian and, above all, the most bourgeois of them all. He depicted various aspects of the society life of Paris, which he loved so much, from the musical gatherings in Tuileries Gardens to more intimate scenes in the cafés. With five paintings of Rue Mosnier, which proved his ability to act as an observer of the banality of everyday life, he also confirmed his extreme modernity and his clean and definitive break with academicism.