This engaging history museum, spanning Gallo-Roman times to modern day, is in two hôtels particuliers (private mansions): mid-16th-century Renaissance-style Hôtel Carnavalet and late-17th-century Hôtel Le Peletier de St-Fargeau. Some of the nation’s most important documents, paintings and other objects from the French Revolution are here.
Don't miss Georges Fouquet’s stunning art nouveau jewellery shop from rue Royale, and Marcel Proust’s cork-lined bedroom from his bd Haussmann apartment where he wrote his 7350-page literary cycle À la Recherche du Temps Perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past).
