Free visit of the Balzac House

Name: Free visit of the Balzac House
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Maison de Balzac

For the European Heritage Days on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September, the Maison de Balzac offers free access to its collections.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thème 2022

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Maison de Balzac

47 rue Raynouard 75016 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Located in the heart of the old village of Passy, this house is the only Parisian residence of the writer that remains today. Honoré de Balzac lived there from 1840 to 1847 and designed La Comédie humaine. It is also there that he wrote some of his most beautiful novels such as La Rabouilleuse, Splendeurs et miserères des courtisanes or La Cousine Bette et Le Cousin Pons. Before the Revolution, this house formed the common of a mansion built in the eighteenth century by the painter Noël Hallé, and razed in 1936 to allow the expansion of the street Raynouard. Acquired by the City of Paris in 1945, the house was converted into a museum, then endowed in 1971 with a library. The furniture of the writer having been dispersed at the death of his widow, Mrs Hanska, only the work cabinet was partially restored.