HOUSE AGUTTE SEMBAT
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A typical building, home to the legendary couple Georgette Agutte and Marcel Sembat during the Belle Epoque.
On the road to the Impressionists, don't forget to stop off at Bonnières-sur-Seine, where you can push open the gates of this typical 19th-century building, home to Georgette Agutte and Marcel Sembat's passionate love affair. She, a modern woman of great independence of spirit and daring (she took advantage of a new law voted in 1888 to divorce an art critic), was an artist passionate about painting and new trends. He, a lawyer, journalist, committed socialist and renowned politician of the Third Republic, was also a great art lover. Their shared passion led to a relationship that made this couple one of the most legendary of the Belle Epoque. Strongly influenced by the Neo-Impressionists and the Fauves, they were patrons of new talent, including Henri Matisse. On September 4, 1922, Marcel Sembat succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage in Chamonix. Devoured by sadness, Georgette Agutte followed him in death by committing suicide, leaving behind them this epitaph: "I can't live without him, 12 hours since he died, I'm late." Of their love remains this resort, which they loved to return to far from the hustle and bustle of Paris, and where they received their artist friends. They adapted the place to their desires, knocking down partitions to let in light, creating libraries and a studio for painting and sculpture. The house, which was bought by the town council in 2004, has undergone renovation work to restore the atmosphere of the period.
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