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* Pont Alexandre III
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* Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Musée national des
* Arts Décoratifs, Musée des
* Arts et Métiers-Techniques, Musée national des
* Assemblée Nationale Palais-Bourbon
* Baccarat, Musée
* Balzac, Maison de
* Bastille
* Bibliothèque Nationale De France
* Carnavalet, Musée
* Cernuschi, Musée
* Chaillot, Palais de
* Cognacq-Jay, Musée
* La Conciergerie
* Concorde, Place de la
* Eugène Delacroix, Musée National
* Faubourg Saint-Germain
* Faubourg St-Honoré
* Fragonard, Musée
* Gobelins, Manufacture nationale des
* Grand Palais
* Grands Boulevards
* Les Halles
* Hôtel De Ville
* Institut De France
* Institut du Monde Arabe
* Jacquemart-André, Musée
* Jeu de Paume, Galerie nationale du
* Madeleine, Eglise de la
* Maillol, Musée
* Le Marais
* Marmottan, Musée
* Mode et du Costume, Musée de la
* Montmartre
* Montparnasse
* Moyen-Age, Musée National du
* Musique, Musée de la
* Nissim de Camondo, Musée
* Opéra Garnier
* Orangerie, Musée National de l'
* Palais-Royal
* Panthéon
* Père-Lachaise, Cimetière du
* Petit Palais, Musée du
* Picasso, Musée
* Plantes, Jardin des
* Rodin, Musée
* Sacré Coeur, Basilique du
* St-Germain-des-Prés
* Saint-Louis, Ile
* St-Sulpice, église
* Sainte-Chapelle
* Tuileries, Jardin des
* Vendôme, Place
* Vosges, place des
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Balzac, Maison de

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This is the house in which Honoré de Balzac lived from 1840 to 1847, while he was writing the series of novels La Comédie Humaine. The house contains numerous mementoes of his life and work, such as manuscripts, letters, original drawings and prints and a plaster cast which Rodin used as a study for the monumental statue now standing in Montparnasse. Balzac used the backdoor in the picturesque rue Berton when he needed to avoid the bailiffs!


Opéra National de Paris-Bastille

Address: Place de la Bastille, 75012 Paris
Phone: 01 40 01 17 89; recorded information: 01 40 01 19 70
Open: Listen to the recorded information; closed Sun
Restaurant: Bar
Bus: 20, 29, 65, 69, 76, 86, 87, 91
Metro: Bastille
Accessible: Good
Admission: Expensive
Practical: Guided tours, shops

Viaduc des Arts

Address: 9-129 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris
Phone: General information: 01 44 75 80 66
Open: Variable; most workshops open Sun
Restaurant: Near by (Inexpensive)
Metro: Bastille, Ledru-Rollin, Reuilly-Diderot
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