It is located 70 km south of Paris and is notable for the artists and musicians who have lived or stayed there. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson met his wife Karin Bergöo while they were both staying at Grez.
The English composer Delius lived here and dictated a number of works to his amanuensis Eric Fenby here. Their house was portrayed in the 1968 Ken Russell film Song of Summer, but it was filmed in England.
Others include Swedish artists Karl Nordström, Carl Larsson and Bruno Liljefors as well as writer August Strindberg, the Danish and Norwegian members of the Skagen Group, and Robert Louis Stevenson.