Maison de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) is the reason this quiet residence still holds center stage in Paris. The Maison de Balzac, a writer’s house museum at 47, rue Raynouard, preserves the former top-floor rooms he rented from 1840 to 1847 after fleeing his creditors. On that highest level—at three levels, opening into the garden—he edited *La Comédie humaine* and drafted novels including *La Rabouilleuse*, *Une ténébreuse affaire*, and *La Cousine Bette*. The city of Paris acquired the house in 1949, and it remains one of Paris Musées’ three literary museums, alongside the Maison de Victor Hugo and the Musée de la Vie Romantique. The collection includes Balzac’s writing desk and chair, his turquoise-studded cane by Lecointe dated 1834, and a tea kettle and coffee pot given to him by Zulma Carraud in 1832. The museum also holds a 1842 daguerreotype of Balzac by Louis-Auguste Bisson, anchoring his fame in an early era of photographic realism.

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