Bougival France
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CroisiEurope (9 Cruises)
MS Déborah
9 Cruises
| 28 April | 6 days | One-way from Paris City to Pont-lEveque-Oise |
| 28 April | 7 days | One-way from Paris City to Pont-l'Eveque-Oise |
| 21 July | 6 days | One-way from Paris City to Pont-lEveque-Oise |
| 21 July | 7 days | One-way from Paris City to Pont-l'Eveque-Oise |
Frequently Asked Questions
At the foot of the hillsides, on the Seine, in this Yvelines village about fifteen kilometres west of Paris. Everything is walkable from the landing.
Because Monet set up his easel here in 1869 and Renoir, Sisley, Morisot and Pissarro followed. For thirty years this bend in the Seine served as an open-air laboratory for the movement.
Yes. About a dozen enamelled reproduction panels stand along the banks, at the exact spot where the canvases were painted. In front of Monet's The Seine at Bougival, the real landscape lines up with the painting: same wooded islands, same curve of the river.
An hour and a half for the full circuit. The village tourist office provides a handy map. The Impressionists' path continues towards Louveciennes and Marly for anyone who wants to keep walking the slopes.
One of the great technical feats of the Grand Siècle: completed in 1684, it lifted Seine water more than 150 metres using fourteen giant paddle wheels, to feed the pools of Versailles and Marly. Sisley painted the weir in 1876.
Almost nothing. It was dismantled over the centuries and the last building disappeared in 1968. Interpretation panels tell the story opposite the Île de la Chaussée; it takes some imagination, which comes easily watching the current still ruffle the water in the same place.
A pale wooden house the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev had built on the heights, close to the villa of the singer Pauline Viardot, the friendship of his life. The house-museum keeps his study and tells the story of this Franco-Russian circle, which drew Flaubert and Saint-Saëns.
A famous floating bathing place on the Île de Croissy, directly opposite Bougival, where Monet and Renoir painted side by side in the summer of 1869, inventing a movement without knowing it. A museum on the neighbouring bank is devoted to it.
Walk up from the medieval church of Notre-Dame towards the slopes, through quiet lanes and millstone walls. Then a terrace facing the islands: rowing, immortalized by Renoir, is still practised on this calm reach.
The euro and French. The village is modest: a few terraces and shops, no shopping district. Bring a little cash and do not expect souvenir stores.
