Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits
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The Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits is a museum of letters and manuscripts located at 222 Boulevard Saint-Germain in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is open every day except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The nearest métro station is Rue du Bac.
The museum was established in 2004 in a townhouse dating to 1608 at 8 Rue de Nesle; it reopened at the Boulevard Saint-Germain location in 2010.
Collections
It contains nearly 136 000 original manuscripts and letters, including the cease-fire order signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 7, 1945, poems of Paul Éluard, and a love-letter by Théodore Géricault. Other items of interest include documents by individuals including:
- Authors - René Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, the Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, François-René de Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Paul Verlaine, Marcel Proust, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
- Painters and visual artists - Jacques-Louis David, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Félix Nadar, René Magritte, and Balthus.
- Musicians and composers - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt.
- Scientists and engineers - Isaac Newton, the Montgolfier brothers, Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie Curie, Rudolf Diesel, and Gustave Eiffel.
- Royalty - Charles VI, Charles VIII, François I, Catherine de' Medici, François II, Henri IV, Catherine II, and Napoleon.
- Statesmen - Leon Trotsky, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Charles de Gaulle.
Bibliography
- Gérard Lhéritier (dir), Letters of History, History Makers, Paris, Scriptura editions, 2005.
See also
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