Maison Fournaise
The Maison Fournaise is a restaurant and museum on the Seine nearby Île des Impressionnistes in Chatou , in the Rue du Bac Nos. 1, about ten kilometers west of Paris. It has been protected as a Monument historique since 1982 .
history
The house from 1844 was taken over by Alphonse Fournaise in 1857 and opened as a restaurant in 1860. The increasing popularity of boat trips on the Seine to Chatou, which was still more rural at the time, revived business and in 1877 Fournaise built the famous balcony on which Pierre-Auguste Renoir lets his rowers have breakfast with the Seine in the background. The bar was a meeting point for French impressionists such as Renoir, Claude Monet , and Edgar Degas . The writer Guy de Maupassant was also a frequent guest at Maison Fournaise, describing it as a restaurant Grillon in his novella La femme de Paul . At the turn of the century, enthusiasm for cycling replaced rowing and the restaurant closed in 1906.
From 1984 to 1990 the Maison Fournaise was restored by the community of Chatou with the support of the Amis de la Maison Fournaise and the Friends of French Art from Los Angeles and the facade today has the appearance of 1880. Since 1990 it has been operated as a restaurant again the municipal museum opened in 1992.
The Maison Fournaise (Seine side)
Alphonse Fournaise, portrayed by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '22.6 " N , 2 ° 9' 47.9" E