Honoré de Balzac is one of the most famous french writer. He lived, between 1840 et 1847, in a house at Passy, a small village now included in Paris. This mansion became a Museum where you can see the his library and the genealogy of all of the caracters he invented.
The legend says he had two ways to escape from the sheriff’s officer coming to claim for debts. The old caves on the top from where he could gain access to near building’s cellars and the bottom door leading to the “rue basse”, nowadays rue Berton.

At the very end of the garden, there is a bust of the writer, under the foliage. Balzac seems to observe people from his retreat, as the witness of the Parisian society he described so precisely in his prolific work.