📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Park Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU owes its name and fame to the well-known philosopher of the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who stayed there during the last six weeks of his life before being temporarily buried in the heart of the park, on the “Peupliers” island. Nowadays the site, classified as historical monument, has become a cultural and meeting center mixing nature, culture and history in a beautiful environment.
The park is a real “place of intellectual pilgrimage” for Arts and literature lovers from across Europe. It has been visited by Napoleon Bonaparte and by the Queen Marie-Antoinette, who took it as a model for her “Hameau de la Reine”, built in the Chateau de Versailles Park. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, this picturesque English garden has been an unquenchable source of inspiration for personalities such as the poet Gerard de Nerval, the painter Nelie Jacquemart-André or the feminist Olympe de Gouges.
For this project, you’ll be closely linked to the animations planned by the Centre Socioculturel Les Portes du Valois and to local youth.
For more information: www.parc-rousseau.fr
💼 What the programme involves
Several tasks are planned in the park:
- Painting and maintenance of small equipment such as benches,
- Re-sealing small walls thanks to traditional techniques
- Creation of forestry equipment
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep under tents, boys and girls separated, in the Park. You’ll use all the installations for daily life: kitchen, bathrooms…The group will be sharing the cleaning chores and preparing meals together.
📍 About the location
Ermenonville is located in Oise department, North of Paris, near Chantilly and its famous castle.
⚠️ Requirements
Bring working clothes and shoes. For the accommodation under tents, bring your sleeping bag and floor mat. Please feel free to bring some food specialties, pictures, musical instrument: things you like and want to share with the group and the local community!