The Association between Paris and Bois-le-Roi aims to save the tangible and intangible heritage of Bois-le-Roi through  the work, life and family of Georges MOREAU DE TOURS and of his wife Thérèse de CHAMP RENAUD. 

The Association des Amis de Moreau de Tours also preserves the heritage of the painter’s father, Dr. Jacques-Joseph MOREAU DE TOURS,  the famous psychiatrist. In 1845 he created in Paris the Club des Haschischins, where he explored the source of creative genius with the Romantic poets and artists.

Bois-le-Roi was the Village d’art & de Littérateurs of the Bohème chantante of the poet and songwriter Gustave Mathieu. In the 19th century, the resident artists launched a petitition for the safeguarding of the Fontainebleau Forest. In 1872 Dr. Horace Bureaud-Riofrey, Mayor from 1876 to 1881, created the Comité de Protection Artistique de la Forêt de Fontainebleau. It was the first of all the subsequent associations for the protection of the Forest, among  which the Association des Amis de la forêt de Fontainebleau (1907), and  the Association des naturalistes de la vallée du Loing et du massif de Fontainebleau (ANVL) (1913).

Les Amis de Moreau de Tours convey this rich heritage, and bring support to the New Bohème of contemporary artists, with a yearly Salon d’Art, Sous le signe des Muses, and lecture-concerts in Bois-le-Roi. In Paris, meetings and debates on the origins of creative genius will be organized around an exhibition.