Musée de la Vie Romantique
The Musée de la Vie romantique is the kind of Paris literary salon that outlived its host house—because the museum still preserves the atmosphere of the 19th-century gatherings held here. The core building is an 1830s hôtel particulier, the Paris base of Ary Scheffer, a Dutch-born painter closely connected to Louis-Philippe and his family. For decades, Scheffer and his daughter Cornélia hosted Friday-evening salons in La Nouvelle Athènes, and George Sand regularly visited with Frédéric Chopin, meeting guests that included Eugène Delacroix, Ingres, and Franz Liszt. Later in the century, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgueniev, and Charles Gounod also attended. After remaining in private hands, the property became a museum in 1982 under the name Musée Renan-Scheffer. Following a renovation directed by Anne-Marie de Brem and carried out with Jacques Garcia, it reopened in 1987 as the Musée de la Vie romantique. …
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