Maison de Balzac
47 rue Raynouard 75016 Paris
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.
Etiquetas
Maison, appartement, atelier de personnes célèbres, Musée, salle d'exposition, Maison des illustres, Monument historique
Accès
Metro: Passy, La Muette RER C: Boulainvilliers, Radio France Bus: 32, 52, 70, 72 Vélib': Rue Chernoviz, rue de Passy, rue du Ranelagh