Nicolas Flamel’s house – Wikipedia
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The Nicolas Flamel’s house , also known as “The big gable” , is a house located at 51 rue de Montmorency, in the 3 It is district of Paris [ first ] .
It is a house that Nicolas Flamel, a rich Parisian bourgeois, had his Pernelle wife built after the death of his wife, in 1397, in order to house a business on the ground floor and to welcome the poor [ 2 ] on the floors, provided they make their morning and evening prayers in honor of the couple [ 3 ] . Completed in 1407 as evidenced by current registration in frieze above the ground floor, it is the best known of the houses of Flamel and the only one that still exists today. If it is impossible to ensure that it is the oldest in Paris, it is certainly the oldest that we can date [ first ] .
Jacques Hillairet, in his Historical dictionary of the streets of Paris , made 3 rue Volta the oldest house in Paris, which it dates from around 1300; Nevertheless recent research shows that this house is in fact around 1650, making the oldest Nicolas Flamel house known to this day [ 4 ] .
The facade of the house has been the subject of a classification as historic monuments since the [ first ] .
A gourmet restaurant, “L’Auberge Nicolas Flamel”, belonging to the star chef Alan Geaam, is currently occupying the house [ 5 ] .
The facade which includes four levels is denatured by successive alterations, in particular by the restoration occurred on the occasion of the universal exhibition of 1900 (loss of the large gable which gave it its name, windows repeated) [ 2 ] .
The arrangement of the interior space of the ground floor has been modified. However, there are three doors that allow it to be returned. The two side doors once corresponded to shops, while the central door made it possible to access the floors by a circular staircase. The doors’ legs are adorned with sculptures engraved in basket handle frames. They represent characters holding phylacterae or seated in gardens. The central door is framed by four angels playing a musical instrument. On two legs are the initials of Nicolas Flamel.
Under the cornice of the ground floor runs the registration [ 6 ] :
“We hōm (m) es and fēm (m) es laboureurs demourans or porch of this house which fu f (ai) c (t) ē in lan of grace • millet four cens and seven • sōm (m) es held chacū ( n) In law so to say every day a patent and • I • Ave Maria, praying to God Q (ūe) of his grace face pard (ō) n aus poles fishermen trendo • Amen • »
- ‘ Nicolas Flamel house » , notice n O PA00086213, Base Mérimée, French Ministry of Culture .
- Claude Mignot ( photogr. Jacques wide), Grammar of Parisian buildings: six centuries of Middle Ages facades to the present day , Paris, parigramme, , 205 p. (ISBN 2-84096-175-X ) , p. 74 .
- Paris History Panel located at the corner with rue Saint-Martin.
- Tonino Serafini, « Old stones and quarrel of Deoyenneu. Two houses in Paris, rue Volta and rue de Montmorency, compete for the title. », Release , ( read online ) .
- The Chef , ‘ Interview with … Alan Geaam, chef-kitchen, restaurateur and manager (Alan Geaam group) » , on B.R.A. Catering trends , (consulted the )
- Eugène de Ménorval, Paris from its origins to the present day , vol. 2 : From the advent of Charles VI, in 1380 until the death of Henri III, in 1589 , Paris, Firmin-Didot, ( read online ) , p. 129–130 .
Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- Auguste Bernard, « House of Nicolas Flamel, rue de Montmorency, 51, in Paris », Memoirs , Société des Antiques de France, vol. 21 (= 3 It is series, t. 1), , p. 375–383 ( read online )
- Marcel Aubert, « The house known as Nicolas Flamel, rue Montmorency, in Paris », Bulletin monumental , French Society of Archeology, vol. 76, , p. 305–318 ( read online )
- Catherine Brut et Valentine Weiss, « Nicolas Flamel’s house: the oldest preserved home in Paris », Archeology files , n O 371 “Paris in the Middle Ages”, , p. 50–54
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