Hello Lovely

While not a secret to Parisiens, on the day

we discovered it and strolled in, we were the

only visitors in this grand art gallery...can

you imagine how happy that made this

angsty crowd-allergic functional neurotic????

 A lil' more history, then I'll shush.

In 1866, at the instigation of Baron Haussmann, the city council bought the hôtel Carnavalet to house the new institution. The building, which was constructed in 1548 and altered by François Mansart in the seventeenth century, was home to Madame de Sévigné from 1677 to 1696.