Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits

By on 01/09/2010 in Attractions, Paris

Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits

Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits

The Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits is a museum of letters and manuscripts located at 222 Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The nearest metro station is Rue du Bac.

Exterior View of Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits

Exterior View of Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits

The museum was established in 2004 in a townhouse dating to 1608 at 8 Rue de Nesle; it reopened at the Boulevard Saint-Germain location in 2010. It contains nearly 250 original manuscripts and letters, including the cease-fire order signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 7, 1945, poems of Paul Eluard, and a love-letter by Theodore Gericault. Other items of interest include documents by individuals including:

  • Authors – Rene Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, the Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, François-Rene de Chateaubriand, Stendahl, Gerard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Emile Zola, Paul Verlaine, Marcel Proust, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
  • Painters and visual artists – Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Felix Nadar, Rene Magritte, and Balthus.
  • Musicians and composers – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt.
  • Scientists and engineers – Isaac Newton, the Montgolfier brothers, Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie Curie, Rudolf Diesel, and Gustave Eiffel.
  • Royalty – Charles VI, Charles VIII, François I, Catherine de’ Medici, François II, and Henri IV.
  • Statesmen – Leon Trotsky, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Charles de Gaulle.

Official website is museedeslettres (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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