Barbizon
The village of Barbizon was a popular spot with landscape painters and still carries memories of the artists was made it famous. The Barbizon artists were landscape painters who perfected the technique of working directly from nature after two great masters Théodore Rousseau (1812-67) and Jean-François Millet (1814-75) Next came the writers, seduced by the beauty of the forest and the congenial atmosphere of this small, international community : George Sand, Henry Murger, the brothers Goncourt, Taine.