Comprehensive Guide to Maison de Balzac: Visitor Information & Insights
This humble little museum dedicated to 19th-century French novelist and thinker Honoré de Balzac is located in the writer’s house, nestled in Passy, formerly an independent village west of Paris. The novelist lived and worked here from 1840 to 1847, conceiving his monumental series of interconnected novels and stories,La Comédie humaine(The Human Comedy), as well as many other acclaimed novels.