The Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days) are the perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover the capital's most legendary and hidden spots! This Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, 2024, the Maison de Balzac will be opening its doors to you in Paris for a breathtaking experience, in the heart of an astonishing green setting with a view of the Eiffel Tower. Recently renovated, the French writer's house museum is open free of charge for this extraordinary cultural weekend.
The Maison de Balzac, home of the famous writer, and its secret garden overlooking the Eiffel Tower
The Maison de Balzac, one of the famous writer's homes, is one of the capital's literary gems, located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. This house-museum also boasts an incredible garden overlooking the Eiffel Tower, as well as a café. [Read more]
This bucolic place, which also houses an English café with delicious pastries, is one of the few homes of Honoré de Balzac that can still be discovered today. The three-storey museum retraces the life of the famous French writer, through manuscripts and unusual objects, as well as the study in which he corrected his main work, La Comédie Humaine. A favorite address for lovers of French literature, is listed as a historic monument.
The Journées du Patrimoine are back in Paris and Île-de-France this weekend, September 21 and 22, 2024. What do you think about discovering the canonical tours and events awaiting you at artists' homes in the Paris region? We reveal the program for this 41st edition. [Read more]
For the Journées du Patrimoine 2024 in Paris, the capital's monuments and historic landmarks are opening their doors (often free of charge) to let us in on their secrets. Don't miss this not-to-be-missed event, scheduled for September 21 and 22, 2024! [Read more]
"Actualités littéraires, autour de l'édition de deux ouvrages chez Folio classique"
Meeting with Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison de Balzac is devoting these two days to reading in all its forms.
On Saturday, we'll be listening to two professors of literature and Balzac specialists, Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid, talk about the works they've just published with Folio-Gallimard.
On Sunday, you can take part in reading workshops as part of the Cultural Olympics. A 4 x 4 page relay, because at Balzac, we're all about exercising our brains!
4 workshops will be offered throughout the day, so that many of you will be able to take part.
" Chez Balzac, ça matche" or it breaks. This is how Isabelle Mimouni introduces the edition she is in charge of, which brings together three short stories by the author of La Comédie humaine: La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (1830), Le Bal de Sceaux (1830) and La Bourse (1832). What links these three texts? The question of choice in love.
Martine Reid edits Delphine de Girardin's La Canne de M. de Balzac, with the determination to rehabilitate this female author to whom Balzac recommended writing a great book. On the other hand, she chose to write a parodic text featuring Balzac's legendary cane, reputed to make him invisible so that he could slip into the skin of all his characters, here and elsewhere.
Isabelle Mimouni is a Balzac specialist and member of the Groupe d'études balzaciennes. She has edited several works by Balzac for Folio.
Martine Reid is a specialist in 19th-century literature, George Sand and the works of 18th- and 19th-century women
At 5pm: after the meeting, book signing at the museum reception
This meeting will resonate with our next exhibition "Illusions conjugales perdues" (working title. November 20 - March 30 2025).
41st European Heritage Days 2024. Reading workshops "Relais 4 x 4 pages"
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison de Balzac is devoting these two days to reading in all its forms.
On Saturday, we'll be listening to two professors of literature and Balzac specialists, Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid, talk about the works they've just published with Folio-Gallimard.
On Sunday, you can take part in reading workshops, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. "A 4 x 4 page relay, because Balzac is all about exercising the brain!
4 workshops will be offered throughout the day, so that many of you will be able to take part.
Allow 2h15, including final presentations
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, La Maison Balzac, in partnership with the Passerelles collective, offers you "A 4 x 4 page relay"!
Guided by actors Solenn Goix and Stéphanie Ruaux, participants will go through an athletic warm-up of their "phonatory" apparatus. Get ready to move, blow and speak aloud texts chosen by the actresses from literature around the world, from Balzac to the present day. Diction, metrics and syntactic control will be honed by each of you, as you take up the original challenge of a relay reading-show...
Duration: 2 hours / places limited.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
House of Balzac
47, rue Raynouard
75116 Paris 16
Prices
Free
Official website
www.maisondebalzac.paris.fr
The Maison de Balzac, home of the famous writer, and its secret garden overlooking the Eiffel Tower
Journées du Patrimoine 2024 at artists' homes in Paris and the Île-de-France region
Heritage Days 2024 in Paris (75): schedule of visits by arrondissement
