Hi!
Normally I would recommend to all LF aficionados visiting the Old Paris to devote at least one half day to Carnavalet Museum.
Carnavalet museum as an institution was one of the customers of Eugène Atget. The museum's collection is rich of 4,000 original photographs by Atget. Unfortunately, the museum is now closed for repair and will not re-open before the beginning of year 2020.
Si this information is for general use, or for a future visit!
http://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/en/homepage
Visitor's entrance, administration
Hôtel Carnavalet
16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
When speaking a bout a historical building, "Hôtel" in France does not mean at all a
hotel but a rich mansion. So do not ask for accommodation at Hôtel Carnavalet
Rue des Francs-Bourgeois is located in the heart of the Marais district. So even if the Carnavalet Museum is closed, I warmly recommend to walk from Bastille Square to the Pompidou Museum of Modern Arts through Place des Vosges (one of the most magnificent square in Paris) and rue des Francs-Bourgeois. In this street, close to Carnavalet Museum, you have the National Archives, where exhibitions are often organized related to the history of Paris and France.
But Carnavalet museum ranks#1 as far as the history of Paris is concerned, with an emphasis on the revolutionnary period (1789-1799).
For the time being, Carnavalet Museum being closed, you can have a look at a virtual Atged gallery organized for internauts by the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, BNF) here.
http://expositions.bnf.fr/atget/expo...lle1/index.htm
But of course nothing replaces the direct vision of an original contact albumen print by Atget!
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