Essoyes is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir had a house in the town. The village, hometown of his wife Aline and model and governess of his children Gabrielle Renard, is represented in many of his paintings.

Essoyes is a quiet Champagne village located about thirty miles south of Troyes, on the banks of the Ource river. The Ource, a tributary of the Seine, was well loved by Renoir.

With 745 inhabitants, the thirteen square mile village is found at the center of Champagne's Côte des Bar, on the border of Champagne and Bourgogne.

Sights include:

• The Maison de la Vigne, located in the château stables and constructed between 1890 and 1892 by Olympe Heriot
• The workshop of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, constructed in 1905 in the garden of his family home on rue de l'Extra
• The cemetery, where the tomb of Renoir, his son Jean Renoir, and Auguste Heriot can be found

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