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Main living room, first floor<\/em>, Sach\u00e9, Balzac Museum, photo Stevens Fr\u00e9mont.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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>> Virtual tour of the museum<\/a><\/h4>\n

>> Download the visitor brochure ( 1,2 Mo, PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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First floor<\/h2>\n

Visitors begin their tour by passing through the bossage door then up a large 17th century staircase to the first floor. The reception rooms whisk you away to the early 19th century. The living room\u00a0(listed as a Monument Historique) is a feast for the eyes with staggering trompe-l\u2019oeil wallpaper from the first quarter of the 19th century.\u00a0This dramatic interior set the scene for Balzac's games of whist and backgammon with Jean Margonne. The wallpaper from the first quarter of the 19th century in the dining room (listed as a Monument Historique) is based on an original panel. The mythological frieze may have inspired the description of the Vauquer boarding house's lounge in\u00a0Father Goriot\u00a0<\/em>whose manuscript Balzac wrote in Sach\u00e9 in 1834.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Second floor<\/h2>\n

The tour continues on the second floor. Visitors venture up the 15th century spiral staircase to drink in the cosy bedroom (listed as a Monument Historique) where the author of\u00a0The Human Comedy\u00a0<\/em>spent long hours drinking countless cups of coffee to fuel his imagination. The other rooms on this floor introduce visitors to Balzac's life and work with a presentation of permanent collections (prints, manuscripts, engravings, paintings and sculptures) and replica of Abbot Birotteau's bedroom in\u00a0The Vicar of Tours<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Balzac's bedroom, second floor<\/em>, Sach\u00e9, Balzac Museum, photo Stevens Fr\u00e9mont.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Printing room, ground floor<\/em>, Sach\u00e9, Balzac Museum, photo Stevens Fr\u00e9mont.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ground floor<\/h2>\n

The tour ends on the ground floor of the museum. A 19th century printing workshop has been replicated to present Balzac's work as a printer between 1826 and 1828. The Mus\u00e9e Balzac has a new display on the ch\u00e2teau\u2019s ground floor presenting sculptures and monuments made between 1850 and 2019 in tribute to Balzac. Displaying all these projects together enables visitors to compare pieces by the artists Paul Fournier, Henri Chapu, Alexandre Falgui\u00e8re and Fran\u00e7ois Sicard, whose work is true to the academic tradition of a public monument in tribute to a writer. It also highlights how pioneering the pieces by Auguste Rodin and Anatole Marquet de Vasselot were in the 19th century, alongside the anti-monument by Nicolas Milh\u00e9 in 2019.<\/p>\n

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\nNew Rodin gallery display. Pieces by Auguste Rodin<\/em>, Mus\u00e9e Balzac, Ch\u00e2teau de Sach\u00e9, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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