Les Pléiades Hôtel · Spa · Restaurant

The building that now houses Les Pléiades began as a modest village house belonging to the painter Charles-François Daubigny. From the 1830s onwards it became a gathering place for the artists who were reinventing French landscape painting in the forest of Fontainebleau — Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Diaz, and others passed through. A plaque on the western façade of the hotel commemorates Daubigny's presence. The hotel has grown considerably since those days, but the address retains something of its original character: a place where artists came to stay, drawn by the forest and the light.