With its beautiful facades, courtyards, gardens and orangery, which will delight summer evenings, Carnavalet attracts the eye of strollers in the Marais.
Located a stone's throw from Place des Vosges, the museum is a heritage object in itself, since it spans two old mansions.
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The first, called des Ligneris at 23, rue de Sévigné (the current entrance to the museum) is one of the oldest in Paris, and constitutes one of the rare traces of Renaissance architecture in the capital.
Built between 1548 and 1560 for Jacques de Ligneris, president of the Parliament of Paris, it was sold in 1578 to Françoise de la Baume, wife of the knight Kernevenoy - nicknamed "Monsieur Carnavalet".
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From 1660, the architect François Mansart raised the hotel porch and created two new wings.
About fifteen years later, the writer Madame de Sévigné settled there, before leaving the premises in 1694. The museum has kept track of his passage, and notably exhibits his lacquer secretary
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