This warped house is 600 years old
Auberge Nicolas Flamel is the oldest stone house in Paris (1407).
Laborers and gardeners who worked in the vegetable gardens could enjoy free accommodation in the house on the condition they said the daily prayers for the Dead that are still engraved on the six pillars of the façade. Nicolas Flamel’s initials are engraved among these prayers.
Flamel's gravestone was recovered after the destruction of the church (of which only the Tour Saint-Jacques remains), and is now exhibited in the Cluny Museum.
Paris. 2016
This warped house is 600 years old
Auberge Nicolas Flamel is the oldest stone house in Paris (1407).
Laborers and gardeners who worked in the vegetable gardens could enjoy free accommodation in the house on the condition they said the daily prayers for the Dead that are still engraved on the six pillars of the façade. Nicolas Flamel’s initials are engraved among these prayers.
Flamel's gravestone was recovered after the destruction of the church (of which only the Tour Saint-Jacques remains), and is now exhibited in the Cluny Museum.
Paris. 2016