This old fashioned local-history museum, at home since 1921 in an aristocratic hôtel particulier (mansion), is a wonderful evocation of life in the 18th century. Rooms are laid out much as they were when the marquise of Clapiers-Cabris lived here – he loathed his mother, who lived opposite, so he had a Gorgon’s head carved over his door to leer through her windows. Don’t miss the ground-floor kitchen, art collection and gardens with springtime wisteria.
Before entering the museum, pause for a moment to admire, lower down the street, the beautiful (if now abandoned), eclectic façade of what was Hugues-Ainé Perfumery in the 19th century.
