Maison des Jardies

A historic home generally Gambetta-related and a bit of Balzac -explains the name of Gambetta in France!

Beautifully preserved rooms, primarily based on the life and times of Leon Gambetta. A great way to better appreciate why there are so many places in France with Gambetta's name, including a Paris me...

Balzac, the novelist, lived here in the Thirties of the Nineteenth Century !

Honoré de Balzac was not a member of the "noblesse" and his father was responsible for furnishing the Republican then Napoleon's French Army. But Balzac's mother was from a "nobel" family and had to h...