Heritage Days 2024 in Paris: the programme at the Maison de Balzac

The Journées du Patrimoine (Days of Heritage) are the perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover the most legendary and hidden places in the capital! These Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, 2024The House of Balzac opens its doors to you in Paris for a breathtaking experience, in the heart of an amazing green setting overlooking the Eiffel Tower. The recently renovated French writers' house House Museum Is open free of charge for this extraordinary cultural weekend.

The Maison de Balzac, the home of the famous writer, and his secret garden overlooking the Eiffel Tower
One of the famous writer's homes, the Maison de Balzac is one of the capital's literary jewels and is located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. This house-museum also has an incredible garden with views of the Eiffel Tower, as well as a café. [Read more]

The idyllic placewhich also houses an English café with delicious pastries, is one of the few houses of Honoré de Balzac that can still be discovered today. The three-storey museum traces the life of the famous French writerthrough manuscripts and unusual objects as well as through the study in which he corrected his main work, The human comedy. A popular address for Lovers of French literature, is a listed building.

Journées du Patrimoine 2024 in artists' houses in Paris and the Île-de-France region
The Journées du Patrimoine return to Paris and Île-de-France this weekend, September 21 and 22, 2024. What do you think about discovering the canonical tours and events that await you in artists' houses in the Paris region? We unveil the program for this 41st edition. [Read more]

Heritage Days 2024 in Paris (75): Visit plan by arrondissement
On the occasion of the 2024 Paris Heritage Days, the capital's monuments and historic landmarks will open their doors (often for free) to reveal their secrets to us. Don't miss this unmissable event scheduled for September 21 and 22, 2024! [Read more]

The programme of the Heritage Days 2024 at the Maison de Balzac in Paris

• “Literary news surrounding the publication of two works by Folio classique.”
  Saturday, 21 September, 3:30 p.m.

  “Updated literature, author of the Edition de Deux, published by Folio Classique”
  Meeting with Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid

  On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison de Balzac is dedicating these two days to reading in all its forms.
  On Saturday, we will listen to two literature professors and Balzac specialists, Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid, talk about the works they have just published with Folio-Gallimard.
  On Sunday you can take part in reading workshops as part of the Cultural Olympics. A 4 x 4 page long series, because Balzac is all about training our brains!
  There will be 4 workshops offered throughout the day so that many of you can take part.
  “With Balzac, it's a match” or it falls apart. This is how Isabelle Mimouni presents the edition she is editing, which brings together three short stories by the author of La Comédie humaine: La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (1830), Le Bal de Sceaux (1830) and La Bourse (1832). What connects these three texts? The question of choice in love.
  Martine Reid is the editor of Delphine de Girardin's The Stick of Monsieur de Balzac, with the aim of rehabilitating this author, whom Balzac had recommended to write a great book. On the other hand, she has chosen to write a parodic text focusing on Balzac's legendary stick, which supposedly made him invisible, allowing him to slip into the skin of all his characters, here and elsewhere.
  Isabelle Mimouni is a Balzac specialist and member of the Groupe d'études balzaciennes. She has edited several works by Balzac for Folio.
  Martine Reid is a specialist in 19th century literature, George Sand and the works of women of the 18th and 19th centuries
  5 p.m.: after the conference, book signing at the museum reception
  This meeting will be linked to our next exhibition “Illusions conjugales perdues” (working title. 20 November – 30 March 2025).

• Relay 4 x 4 pages” reading workshops
  Sunday, September 22, 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.

  41st European Heritage Days 2024. Reading workshops “Relais 4 x 4 pages”
  On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison de Balzac is dedicating these two days to reading in all its forms.
  On Saturday, we will listen to two literature professors and Balzac specialists, Isabelle Mimouni and Martine Reid, talk about the works they have just published with Folio-Gallimard.
  On Sunday you can take part in reading workshops as part of the Cultural Olympics. “A 4 x 4 page relay, because Balzac is all about brain training!”
  There will be 4 workshops offered throughout the day so that many of you can take part.
  Plan 2h15, including final presentations
  As part of the Cultural Olympics, La Maison Balzac, in collaboration with the Passerelles collective, offers you “A 4 x 4 page relay”!
  Under the guidance of actresses Solenn Goix and Stéphanie Ruaux, participants will undergo a sports warm-up of their “phonatory” apparatus. Get ready to move, blow and pronounce aloud texts chosen by the actresses from literature around the world, from Balzac to the present day. Diction, metrics and syntactic control will be refined by each of you as you face the original challenge of a relay reading show…
  Duration: 2 hours / places limited.