The French artist, Claude Monet, was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. His parents were Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubree Monet and he was their second son. His dad had hoped that Claude Monet would help work in their family grocery store business, but Monet had much bigger plans for himself; he dreamed to become an artist. At the age of eleven, Monet had began going to Le Havre secondary school. By the age of fifteen he had already become well known as a local caricaturist. Also, he created sketches and amateure paintings at this age. Sadly, when he was sixteen years old, his mother died so he dropped out of school and went to live with Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, his aunt.