At the end of the nineteenth century and the early 20th, many well-known artists chose the Bonnières / Bennecourt area, around the islands – a high place for family boating, something like Barbizon and Montmartre or the birthplace of impressionism i.e. Honfleur and Le Havre on the Norman coast. It was a source of inspiration adapted to their artistic expression : RENOIR at La Roche Guyon, CEZANNE at Bennecourt, MONET at Bennecourt Vétheuil and Giverny, BONNARD at Le Vernonnet, Maximilien LUCE at Rolleboise.

The site of the Georgette AGUTTE and Marcel SEMBAT House, their artistic involvement, their social radiance, their friends in Montmartre, a Parisian district where the couple had a house and of which Marcel SEMBAT was an M.P., the artistic relations made by Georgette AGUTTE when she attended Gustave MOREAU’s workshop as a free student at the same time as such artists as Paul SIGNAC and Albert MARQUET and most particularly her close complicity with Henri MATISSE. The transitional time between classical art, the school of Barbizon and impressionism, the craze for orientalism, as a reflection of the collective image developed because of the French colonial period – and many other causes that led to the birth of fauvism and other post impressionist trends. All that caused the AGUTTE-SEMBAT House to become a central point for many artists and intellectuals – a melting-pot for new artistic trends of the Belle Epoque.