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Encounter defiant Romantics

Appreciate how Chopin, George Sand, Liszt, Delacroix... challenged the arts...

 

 

Delacroix, Romantic painting's leader

When the kings returned after Napoleon's defeat, much of the youth found their society of "religion and masked balls" stultifying. 

 
His subjects and loose style of painting scandalized.

That is the background to their works of fire, drama and emotion. 

 

 

 

 

  • Hear about how their personal lives too challenged tradition, via streets that are little-visited,

   poetic and serene (in the 9th Arrondissement)


 

The church that faces the Place Franz Liszt
Among the places that we discover. The movie-maker Jean Renoir (son of Auguste Renoir) lived here in the 1950's.

 

 

  • Two small museums are almost side by side

 

 

Musée de la Vie romantique
The Gustave Moreau museum

 

 

  • Surprises dot the quiet streets

 

 

 

Refined mélange of vintage and new fashion
Tiny théâtre
A place of small, delightful restaurants
Nearby Montmartre can also be part of the story.

 

 

Credits: photos / Catherine Aubin

 

 

Unexpected Paris guided tours