Why Pont-Aven has an artistic heritage: painters such as Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard were drawn to the area in the 1880s-90s. Who Groupe Mercure House, Rennes, €3,664,500 ...

In the autumn of 1888, Paul Gauguin and a young Parisian artist, Paul Sérusier, headed off to the Bois d’Amour – the Woods of Love – just outside Pont-Aven.

My last morning in Pont-Aven, France, I went out walking at dawn, to say goodbye to the pretty village before the shops and galleries opened and the streets came alive with tourists. That early ...