Musee Pasteur, Paris
The Pasteur Museum is housed in the apartment where the great scientist spent the last 7 years of his life.
The Pasteur Museum is housed in the apartment where the great scientist spent the last 7 years of his life. Hardly touched since that time, the museum is full of personal memorabilia and scientific instruments. Pasteur is buried on the grounds in a flamboyant mosaic-decorated mausoleum.
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Musee Pasteur and Nearby Sights on Map
Tour Montparnasse
If the queues at the Eiffel Tower are too much for you, then the Montparnasse Tower is just the place you are looking for
Fondation Henri-Cartier-Bresson
Hôtel des Invalides
Founded in 1671 by Louis XIV as a hospital for 6000 war-wounded soldiers - this function explaining the name of the building - the golden-domed Hôtel des Invalides still functions as an infirmary and now also houses the Musée de l'Armée
Cimetière de Montparnasse
The burial place of existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, feminist Simone de Beauvoir (both of whom lived nearby), musician Serge Gainsbourg, artist Man Ray, the poets Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Sainte-Beuve and Marguerite Duras, the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd Samuel Becket and Eugene Ionesco, the sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Ossip Zadkine, the composers Camille de Saint-Saens and César Franck, the actresses Maria Montez and Jean Seberg, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus, the founder of the Larousse encyclopedia Pierre Larousse, the constructor André Citroen and many others
Musee Rodin
A museum dedicated to the life and work of the great sculptor
Chapelle Notre Dame de la Medaille Miraculeuse
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
The Cartier Foundation is a museum of contemporary art
Pont Alexandre III
Le Grand Palais
An impressive museum wtih a classic interior
