L'Association

The Association des Amis de Moreau de Tours Loi 1901 was created in 2021 by

Monique RICCARDI-CUBITT French-born British art historian, graduate of the Courtauld Institute, University of London, Founder Chairwoman of the Association, who lived in Georges Moreau de Tours’s former house in Paris.  http://www.monique-riccardi-cubitt.com/

Publications :

Le peintre Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1901) et sa famille entre Paris et
Bois-le-Roi, Fontainebleau Revue d’Histoire de la ville et de sa région
n°19, mai 2021
https://www.academia.edu/128823179/LE_PEINTRE_GEORGES_MOREAU_DE_TOURS_1848_1901_ET_SA_FAMILLE_ENTRE_PARIS_ET_BOIS_LE_ROIhttps://www.academia.edu/128823179/LE_PEINTRE_GEORGES_MOREAU_DE_TOU

Bois-le-Roi, village d’art. Les artistes de la Bohème dans la collection de la
mairie, Fontainebleau Revue d’Histoire de la ville et de sa région, N. 22,
octobre 2022 

https://www.academia.edu/128811858/BOIS_LE_ROI_VILLAGE_D_ART_LES_ARTISTES_DE_LA_BOHÈME_DANS_LA_COLLECTION_DE_LA_MAIRIE

La vie de Bohème à Bois-le-Roi. Art, politique et naturalisme, Éditions du
Puits Fleuri, Héricy, novembre 2022 

https://puitsfleuri.com/index.php?id_product=332&rewrite=la-vie-de-boheme-a-bois-le-roi&controller=product

Le Cheval Blanc. Relais de Poste à Chailly-en-Bière & Première auberge de l’École de Barbizon, Éditions du Puits Fleuri, Héricy, novembre 2023

https://puitsfleuri.com/index.php?id_product=368&rewrite=le-cheval-blanc-premiere-auberge-de-lecole-de-barbizon&controller=product

Deux hôtels décorés en Seine et Marne. Le Cheval Blanc à Chailly-en-Bière & l’Hôtel Deligant à Bois-le-Roi, Revue Annuelle des Amis des Monuments & Sites de Seine et Marne, 2024
https://www.academia.edu/128812227/DEUX_HÔTELS_DÉCORÉS_EN_SEINE_ET_MARNE_LE_CHEVAL_BLANC_À_CHAILLY_EN_BIÈRE_L_HÔTEL_DELIGANT_À_BOIS_LE_ROI

Dr. Jean-Pierre LUAUTÉ Honorary  Chairman of the Association, Honorary Psychiatrist in hospitals, member de la Société Française d’Histoire de la Médecine (SFHM) and former President of the Société Médico Psychologique (SMP), author and et director of the biography Les Moreau de Tours, Editions Glyphe, Paris, 2018

What the Association has already accomplished :

Thanks to the Founder Chairwoman, Monique RICCARDI-CUBITT’s original research since 2018 on Georges MOREAU DE TOURS’s life and work, and further to the publication of her article Le peintre Georges Moreau de Tours (1848-1901) et sa famille entre Paris et Bois-le-Roi, Fontainebleau Revue d’Histoire dela ville et de sa région n°19, mai 2021, important steps were taken :

2021 Georges MOREAU DE TOURS’s family tomb in Bois-le-Roi cemetery was restored by the Mairie in 2020. Since then the Association has taken on its upkeep and twice a year adds plants and flowers on All Saints day and in the Spring.

2021 Listing under the Historical Monuments Act of Georges MOREAU DE TOURS’s painting, Ptolemy at the tomb of Alexander realized for the Concours du Prix de Rome in 1878, in the collection of the Bois-le-Roi Mairie by decree of the Ministère de la Culture on April 13 2021: “ The history painting Ptolemy at the tomb of Alexander, Moreau de Tours chose to depict in the academic tradition sheds a light on the whole of his artistic ouput.”, according to the case file of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, following the intervention of Domitille CES, Conservateur délégué des antiquité et objets d’art de Seine-et-Marne.

2024 Contribution from Dr. Jean-Pierre LUAUTÉ, psychiatrist, author of the biography, Les Moreau de Tours, Honorary Chairman of the Président of theAssociation, and Monique RICCARDI-CUBITT, art historian  Founder Chairwoman of the Association, on the work of the famous psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph MOREAU DE TOURS, father of the artist, to Carole MANGOLD’s documentary Les business légaux du Cannabis. Jacques-Joseph MOREAU DE TOURS studied the influence of cannabis on the sources of creative genius at the Club des Haschischins he created in Paris en 1845, where members of the the Romantic artistic and literary intelligentsia participated.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkpr3HTEEc

The film was broadcast by France 3 Centre Val de Loire on  April 24th 2025 

https://www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-presse/72091035

Church Saint Pierre de Bois-le-Roi, XIIe-XIXe siècle

2025 Historic and scientific report on the church of Saint Pierre de Bois-le-Roi for La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français by Monique RICCARDI-CUBITT, Art Historian and Chairwoman, & Felicja LAMPRECHT, Curator  & Art Restorer, who contributed to the restoration of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris a video on the Association’s YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZhGgOEJiPM

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