Discover the Manoir de Bel-Ebat

Name: Discover the Manoir de Bel-Ebat
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Manoir de Bel Ébat

Sound walk in the Bel-Ebat mansion

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entrance. Start of the tour with tablet every hour: 10am, 11am and 12pm. Duration 45 minutes. Number of tablets for the limited sound walk.

©Mairie d'Avon

A course of sound fiction on tablets designed and made especially for the city of Avon will allow the public to go through the history of the Manoir, from Henri IV to the present day in the company of Saint-Saëns, Debussy and many other illustrious who have passed there. Also available for visitors, the Young Visitor’s Guide, specially designed to discover the manor in autonomy, for young and old.

About the location

Manoir de Bel Ébat

2 avenue de Nemours 77210 Avon

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

It is to the hunting pack of Henri IV that the domain owes its name. Passionate about hunting, the king decided that this place, equipped with fresh springs, would be the ideal place for his dog packs to play. According to the treatises on fair hunting (hunting for brothels), ebony is the place where the pack can relax. There is the morning ebony and the evening ebony. He therefore decided to build a hunting lodge.
But the most symbolic period of the magnificence of Bel-Ebat was undoubtedly the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
Restored in the 19th century by the Marcotte family, the manor became the property of the Parisian music publisher Auguste Durand who greatly expanded the estate.
On the latter’s death in 1909, Jacques Durand, publisher like his father, elected municipal and benefactor of the commune, inherited the estate. Heavily invested in the defence of copyright, he played a major role in the development and influence of French music. Thus, t