Optimistically promoted as "Trouville-sur-Seine", it was located on the Seine near Bougival, easily accessible by train from Paris and had just been favoured with a visit by Emperor Napoleon III with his wife and son.
He started studying piano in Bougival at the age of seven with Nicolle Mollard, a former student of Alfred Cortot.
Previously it had been housed on two sites, one at Bougival and the other at Croissy-sur-Seine.
Marcel Pourtout started in 1925 with a small workshop in Bougival and a workforce of twelve.
A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougival from 1860.
Teresa Berganza and Jorge Chaminé are the president and artistic director of the Festival de Bougival.