Exhibition of the Illustrious of Avon

Name: Exhibition of the Illustrious of Avon
Start: 2022-09-17T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T23:59:00+02:00
Location: Manoir de Bel Ébat

Discover the personalities who have marked Avon’s history

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Outdoors

©Mairie d'Avon

Discover the history of the great names who lived in Avon, and small anecdotes about them. The portraits of the illustrious will grow from year to year. For the 2022 edition, discover the new personalities added to the gallery on the gates of the Bel-Ebat park. As part of the exhibition Avon des Sources à l'Avenir, this year you can also discover the exhibition Avon de la Seine à la forêt at the Maison dans la Vallée. More information at www.avon77.com

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