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"
A 19th-century philosopher
"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"
But first...
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