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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was a man who lived a long time ago (in the 1800s and early 1900s). He was an artist who loved to draw and paint things that were happening around him.

He was really good at drawing pictures of people dancing, which he called ballet. You might have seen some ballerinas dance before, they wear pretty tutus and move around very gracefully. That's what Degas loved to draw!

Degas also liked to draw pictures of horses, and he would go to the horse races to watch them run. He would draw their muscles and how they moved while they ran really fast.

Even though Degas was a famous artist, he was also really nice to his friends. He would often have them over to his house for dinners and they would talk about art and what was going on in the world.

Overall, Edgar Degas was an artist who really loved drawing and painting things that inspired him.