Building Where Jim Morrison Died

Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville


Devout fans of rock star Jim Morrison can admire the elegant Hausmannian building at 17 rue Beautreillis, where the singer lived in an apartment on the 3rd floor. He died in the bathtub here in 1971 in the middle of the night, officially from heart failure, at the age of 27.


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