Our Location

Nestled in the countryside and just 36 kilometers away from Paris, Valmondois is the perfect spot to unplug, relax and explore a new sense of renewal. Amelie’s family home, Chez Jules et Leonie is located in the heart of the village and offers 4 rooms for our guests. Built mainly in the nineteenth century, the house forms a harmonious sharing of values based on the respect for nature, culture and artistic exchanges.

The rooms of the house pay tribute to the important French artists of the 19th century.Artists such as Daumier, Corot, Daubigny and Van Gogh lived and frequented Valmondois. And finally, our ancestor, Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume established his family home in the village in 1838. General Charles de Gaulle also paid a visit to the home in 1949 for the Wedding ceremony of Amelie’s parents. Our workshops have limited occupancy and fill up fast.

All rooms are first come first serve and placement is done to best accommodate the needs of our guests. All rooms offer a peaceful and comfortable stay. In addition, we welcome you upstairs to relax with games, conversations, gather around the piano, a place to read or write in case you’re burning the midnight oil. While we do offer free WiFi, we do encourage our guests to unplug and relax.

Our Bed & Breakfast 

Located in the heart of the village of Valmondois, our all inclusive workshop and cultural immersion program is housed in a historical and ancestral home.

The home was established in 1838 and has been lovingly restored by de Gaulle’s brother, Laurent. Upon arrival, you can the calming and un-rushed pace of earlier times.

Our bed and breakfast has retained an authentic charm, reinforced by the assiduous frequentations of artists and writers, lovers of art and walks.The village of Valmodois is in the protected environment of the Natural Regional Park of the French Vexin, in the north of the Île-de-France region.

Deliberately thought in harmony with nature and the environment, space has been designed with the criteria of sustainable development to make it a place of quality stay, on the theme of friendship and love for art.

If Our Walls Could Talk 

Our bed and breakfast has seen generations and generations of artists, writers, musicians and other creatives. You can still feel peaceful vibrations of the home that carry a creative energetic flow to the home.

This place, inhabited by an ancient and profound soul, has a garden drawn against the plateau d’Auvers sur Oise, and a vast and calm courtyard.

Built essentially in the 19th century, the house forms a coherent and harmonious ensemble between an old wing of the eighteenth century and a rehabilitated part in the twentieth century. A spirit of openness and sharing around values of respect for nature, cultural and artistic exchanges, creates this unique ecotouristic and cultural residential offer in the village.

It was through to the friendship of French artist, Charles Daubigny, who stayed several years in Valmondois during his childhood, that my ancestor Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, a fellow student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, came to Valmondois for the first time in 1838.

The two friends came back frequently, and bought a house. Later, Geoffroy-Dechaume, a close friend of Daumier, brought him to Valmondois to live in peace in a small house with an artist’s studio bought for him by his friends, including Camille Corot.

The bedrooms of the house are named in order to pay tribute to these four French artists of the nineteenth century who lived in Valmondois and its region, or frequented the village and its surroundings like Vincent Van Gogh and many others.

Over the years, artists painters and musicians, authors, including Georges Duhamel, rubbed shoulders here including a visit from General de Gaulle, in 1949 for Amelie’s wedding that took place in the beautiful Italian style garden.