Bar'bizon, a village on the skirts of the forest of Fontainebleau, a great artists' resort, the home of Millet; Corot, Diaz, Daubigny, and Rousseau were also of the 'Barbizon school' of painters. See D. C. Thomson, The Barbizon School (1891).
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