Romantic Paris Walking Tour

Name: Visite-promenande Paris romantique
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la vie romantique

Walking tour in the New Athens

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 10h30, 11h00Passé

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In the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, a walk in the footsteps of the great figures of romanticism who lived or frequented the neighborhood: Sand, Hugo, Chopin, Liszt, Delacroix, etc. Discover the New Athens, a district located below the Butte Montmartre, which was one of the jewels of the new Paris and the epicentre of the intellectual life of time.
► Rendezvous 5 minutes before the start of the visit in the courtyard of the Museum of Romantic Life, 16 rue Chaptal, 75009 Paris. Two times: 10:30 and 11:00. Duration of the tour: 1h30

À propos du lieu

Musée de la vie romantique

Hôtel Scheffer-Renan - 16 rue Chaptal 75009 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Built in 1830 at the heart of the named(appointed) district New Athens ", this house, house of the painter Ary Scheffer is since 1983 a museum of the Ville de Paris devoted to the evocation of the artistic and literary life of the first half of the XIXth century. A discreet path laid with cobblestones lined with hundred-year-old locust trees leads(drives) to an Italian-style detached house(flag) with its two workshops(studios), its court(yard) laid with cobblestones and the garden full of flowers of pink(roses) and of lilacs which kept(preserved) the romantic flavour(perfume) of former days. Paintings(Paints), sculptures and objects of the painter Ary Scheffer and his contemporaries contribute to evoke the atmosphere of lounges(shows) under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. Memories(Souvenirs) and memorabilia of George Sand - furniture(pieces of furniture), paintings(boards), works of art and jewels(jewellery) having belonged to the novelist, symbol of the modern woman - are also presented.