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===''Prieuré'' at Avon===
In August 1921 and 1922, Gurdjieff travelled around western Europe, lecturing and giving demonstrations of his work in various cities, such as Berlin and London. He attracted the allegiance of Ouspensky's many prominent pupils (notably the editor [[A. R. Orage]]). After an unsuccessful attempt to gain British citizenship, Gurdjieff established the [[Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man]] south of Paris at the ''Prieuré des Basses Loges'' in [[Avon, Seine-et-Marne|Avon]] near the famous ''[[Chateau Fontainebleau|Château de Fontainebleau]].'' The once-impressive but somewhat crumbling mansion set in extensive grounds housed an entourage of several dozen, including some of Gurdjieff's remaining relatives and some [[White émigré|White Russian]] refugees. An aphorism was displayed which stated: "Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim - to be able to be."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Recollections |first=Pupils |title=Views From The Real World |page=286] |url=http://www.gurdjieff.am/library/views.pdf
New pupils included [[C. S. Nott]], {{ill|René Zuber|fr|vertical-align=sup}}, [[Margaret C. Anderson|Margaret Anderson]] and her ward Fritz Peters. The intellectual and middle-class types who were attracted to Gurdjieff's teaching often found the Prieuré's spartan accommodation and emphasis on hard labour in the grounds disconcerting. Gurdjieff was putting into practice his teaching that people need to develop physically, emotionally and intellectually, and so lectures, music, dance, and manual work was organised. Older pupils noticed how the Prieuré teaching differed from the complex metaphysical "system" that had been taught in Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gurdjieff.org/lipsey1.htm |title=R. Lipsey: ''Gurdjieff Observed'' |publisher=Gurdjieff.org |date=1999-10-01 |access-date=2014-03-02}}</ref> In addition to the physical hardships, his personal behaviour towards pupils could be ferocious:
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