# VI explained — Travel Essays

> Chapter companion for Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

## What happens

The chapter reflects on the picturesque but overlooked villages of Nemours, Moret, Montigny, Chailly-en-Bière, and Marlotte, discussing their suitability for painters and the decline of artistic habitation in these places.

## Themes in this chapter

### Art and the Artistic Life

The chapter discusses the presence and absence of painters in various villages, reflecting on the artistic life and the changing nature of these locales.

## Character check-ins

### Will H. Low

Installed himself at Montigny with a barrel of piquette, entertaining friends in a leafy trellis above the weir.

## Key lines

> Montigny has been somewhat strangely neglected, I never knew it inhabited but once, when Will H. Low installed himself there with a barrel of piquette, and entertained his friends in a leafy trellis above the weir, in sight of the green country and to the music of the falling water.

Montigny has been oddly overlooked; I only recall it being lived in once, when Will H. Low set up there with a barrel of piquette and hosted his friends on a leafy trellis by the weir, overlooking the green landscape and listening to the waterfall.

_Describes the solitary artistic habitation of Montigny by Will H. Low._

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