Up for a carriage ride to Fontainebleau Forest?
"No destination was more popular than the Forest of Fontainebleau. Once the unmapped preserve of kings and their royal hunting parties,… the Forest of Fontainebleau became a sanctuary for the growing leisure classes, for whom a train ride from Paris was an easy jaunt.
Quiet hamlets ringed the forest, refuges for woodchoppers and modest farm laborers. It was to one of those villages, Barbizon, that artists journeyed beginning in the 1820s, with a promise of room and board at the newly established inn Auberge Ganne. The Auberge provided lodging for painters who typically forayed into the nearby forest in warm weather and retreated to Parisian studios in winter. After daylong excursions in nature, artists convened at the Auberge Ganne to share ideas, discuss technical practices, and revel in one another’s company." —from the Metropolitan Museum page on The Barbizon Colony.
Let's join Sophie and Lucien for a weekend away...
