Portrait of Barbizon: On the Edge of the Fontainebleau Forest, Uncovering the Wild

The Washington Post | June 3, 1990| | Copyright

There are times when I hate Paris, as is only natural after spending seven years here. This is, after all, a modern city, as gray and noisy, hurried and dirty as the rest of them. What the Parisians do in such cases is flee to the countryside, half of them to their country homes, where they spend weekends and those exquisitely long French summer vacations. But my wife and I are not among that crowd. So we drive south of Paris for about 40 minutes, around the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau to Barbizon.

For roughly half a century, starting in 1825, this village was the nexus for a group ...

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