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- Area:
- Montmartre & Pigalle
- Category:
- Best secret
- Address:
- 16 rue Chaptal, 9th
- Info:
- (01.55.31.95.67 /
Website).
Mº Blanche or
St-Georges.
Open 10am-6pm Tue-Sun.
Admission free. Exhibitions €7; free-€5.50 reductions.
Musée de la Vie Romantique
16 rue Chaptal, 9th
When Dutch artist Ary Scheffer lived in this villa, the area was home to so many writers and artists it was known as ‘New Athens’. George Sand was a guest at Scheffer’s soirées – though the watercolours, lockets and jewels she left behind reveal little – and other great names crossed the threshold.
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