Madame Ganne had thought it all through carefully — “there should be more money to make from the odd Parisian characters who had recently begun to frequent her grocery store in the village of Barbizon, stocking up on bread and red wine before disappearing into the Fontainebleau Forest with their easels.”
If they wanted to expand their small house and create a larger dining room, she discussed it with Monsieur, and soon after, she opened the Auberge Ganne.
Bread, Wine, And A Hotel For Artists
It was cozy, Madame knew how to cook, and moreover, it was cheaper than the inns along the stagecoach route. Between 1830 and 1860, numerous painters—including the group later known as the “Barbizon School of Landscape,” which included Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, Jean-Baptiste Corot, and…more
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