Musée des lettres et manuscrits

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Musée des lettres et manuscrits
Paris 2014 lettres et manuscrits 01.jpg
Former entrance to the museum on Paris Boulevard Saint-Germain (2014)
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place 75007 Paris, Boulevard Saint-Germain no.222
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Literature Museum
opening 2004
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The Musée des lettres et manuscrits ( German  "Museum of letters and manuscripts" ) was a literary museum in Paris . Tens of thousands of historical letters and manuscripts were exhibited here.

history

One of the exhibits in the museum was this German Enigma I rotor cipher machine , which was used by the Wehrmacht during World War II .

The museum was originally opened in 2004 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris by the French entrepreneur and manuscript dealer Gérard Lhéritier (* 1948) in a building dating from 1608 at 8 rue de Nesle . In 2010 the collection moved to 222  Boulevard Saint-Germain (picture right) .

At the end of 2015 the museum had to close due to legal problems. The collection was confiscated by the French authorities.

The French journalist , author and television presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (* 1947) was the museum's patron .

Web links

Commons : Musée des lettres et manuscrits  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Were investors conned into buying rare manuscripts? BBC News of March 15, 2016, accessed March 2, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 19 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 39 ″  E