Claude Debussy instead "an exquisite, pellucid style" capable of conveying "not only gaiety and whimsicality but emotion of a deeper sort". In a 2004 study, Mark DeVoto comments that Debussy's early works are harmonically no more adventurous than existing music by Fauré; in a 2007 book about the piano works, Margery Halford observes that "Deux arabesques" (1888–1891) and "Rêverie" (1890) have "the fluidity and warmth of Debussy's later style" but are not harmonically innovative. Halford cites the popular "Clair de Lune" (1890) from the "Suite Bergamasque" as a transitional work pointing towards the composer's mature style. Musicians from Debussy's time onwards have
Droit de suite and their families, had suffered from the war, and "droit de suite" was a means to remedy socially difficult situations. According to Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, "droit de suite" was created in France following the sale of Millet's 1858 painting, the "Angélus", in 1889 at the Secretan sale. The owner of the painting made a huge profit from this sale, whereas the family of the artist lived in poverty. The 2001/84/EC directive mandates a somewhat uniform system of "droit de suite" across the European Union. This directive is controversial in the United Kingdom. In France, this system is in force