PLAQUES REVEAL THIS RIVER BANK'S PRESTIGE

THEY RECALL THE CELEBRITIES WHO VIEWED RIVER AND LOUVRE FROM THEIR WINDOWS 

 

"CÉCILE SOREL 

1873 - 1966

 Actress

 Lived in this building 

for 20 years"

Symbol of the Comédie-française 

 "Dominique Vivant Denon  

1745-1825

 first director of the Louvre 

passed the last years of his life 

in this house"

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The Sphinx near the Pyramid, which Denon drew while accompanying Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.

 "The painter Jean Dominique Ingres

 died in this house on January 14, 1867"

"Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813-1900)

Member of the Institut

Academy of Letters

Academy of Moral and Political Science

died in this house"

"Rudolf Noureev, 1938-1993,

Dancer and Choreographer

Director of the Ballet for the Opera of Paris

lived in this house during the last years of his life"

Few people visited Noureev for fear of AIDs. The view of the river may have made have comforted his end.  

An apartment where Resistance leaders met:

"In this establishment held by Mr. Picot under the foreign Occupation and until the Liberation of Paris the leaders of Resistance Libération-Nord Sections Police-Country-D.P. and State Police under the Direction of Ribière Henri . Combes Pierre . Priou-Rivière Roger . Angousset Jean"

For "déjeuner:"

"VOLTAIRE 

born in Paris

on November 21, 1694

died in this house on May 30 1777"

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