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FONTAINEBLEAU

Half day (4 hours) or Full day (8 hours) excursion with Barbizon.

Fontainebleau:
Situated in the middle of a beautiful forest, Fontainebleau was a favourite hunting residence of the French kings from FranÃ§ois 1er to NapolÃ©on III. Entered through a large courtyard (Cour des Adieux) with a celebrated double-horseshoe staircase, the sprawling ChÃ¢teau de Fontainebleau shows traces of its numerous royal inhabitants in its sumptuous interiors in a myriad of styles. FranÃ§ois I transformed a hunting lodge into a renaissance palace, bringing in a team of Italian artists. Their frescoes and strange fireplaces survive in the dramatic Long Gallery and Ballroom. Most French monarchs spent some time here; Louis XIV decided to revoke the Edict of Nantes at Fontainebleau and it was one of Napoleon's favourite residences.

Barbizon:
Known as an artistic centre since the 19th century when Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet and Robert-Louis Stevenson lived there. At the beginning of the 19th century, Barbizon was a small hamlet of peasants. It was around the middle of the 19th century that Barbizon truly gained its letters of nobility when settled Theodore Rousseau and Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet who fleeted Paris with his family where prevailed an epidemic of cholera. Barbizon counted at this time famous residents such Paul Huet, Diaz of Pena, Cabat, French Louis, Daubigny, Decamps, Chintreuil or Dauimier...Â

The creative current which emerged from this place gave immortal Artworks suchÂ as " The Angelus " or " Les Glaneuses ". In their work "Solomon LeverÂ» in 1967, the Goncourt brothers, in addition inhabitants of the place, describe the atmosphere and the life of the village at the time. The character of the Crescent painter is moreover non-openly inspired by the painter Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet.