Island of the Roadway
The island of the Roadway , or island of the Snap fastener or island of Croissy , is a island of the the Seine, long approximately 2,5 kilometers, located in the Yvelines between Bougival and Rueil-Malmaison on left bank, and the Croissy-on-Seine on Right Bank. Administratively, it is divided between the common of Bougival and the Croissy-on-Seine. It is between the island of the Impressionists upstream and the island of the Cabin downstream, of which it is separated by the lock S from Bougival.
This island is crossed by the Pont Marshal-of-Lattre-of-Tassigny (secondary Road 321) connecting Bougival to the Croissy-on-Seine.
It currently accommodates, in its point upstream, the Golf of the Snap fastener.
History
The island of the Snap fastener sheltered a microscopic Plage on which the painters romantic landscape designers then the impressionists pressed.
The first to attend it in be are indeed painters of Barbizon attracted by its intact nature, the new sights which it offers on the Seine, or the Canotage and cracklings of Poisson that propose the fishermen of the Restaurant S of the quay of Bougival.
French Louis, Célestin Nanteuil, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Theodore Rousseau thus attends the Inn Often, since 1835 for the two first. The latter are cotisent in particular with Auguste Anastasi and Eugene Desjobert, in 1851, to acquire a small boat called to become a boat workshop and named “the Frog”. In this direction, this boat workshop is not without evoking that of Charles Daubigny on the Oise then that of Claude Monet with Argenteuil.
In 1852, François and Alexandrine Seurin install tents on this beach for a Fast-food industry of accustomed increasingly more, in particular come by the Railroad connecting the Gare Saint-Lazare to the station from Chatou.
In 1857, Seurin install with residence on bank, Rueil side, two Péniche S, one acting of coffee in day and room of dance the evening; the other of bathing huts. The rich of the Second Empire are crushed on the tiny facing bank, and said small island, the “small island of the Snap fastener”, the “flower Pot”, “Camembert cheese” or the “island of Saint-Pants”. The dedication of the place holds with the visit (night) of Napoleon III and his wife, in August 1869.
A little later Monet and Renoir makes Snap fastener one of the high places of the Impressionnisme in Ile-de-France.
See too
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