The park was founded by the French actor Jean Richard in 1963 on lands leased by from the Institut de France. The park was bought by Compagnie des Alpes in July 2005, who at the time owned Parc Astérix, another amusement park only 5 km away. The park was then sold to its current owner, the Looping Group in 2015. Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80.

A very pretty park with plenty of areas to explore and nice little poems and memorials dotted around, also worth walking up the road to the little bakery to get yourself some goûter 😋 also the park now seems to be free to enter which is always a bonus