Paris folder A/parisA416
Previous | Home | NextThis is the intersection of Rue Pecquay and Rue des Blancs Manteaux (looking north). It is not possible to know exactly where the Lavoisier house was located, but it must be very close to here, because we are told it was close to Rue des Blancs Manteaux. We have a description of the house from Edouard Grimaux's book on Lavoisier: It belonged to Madame Francoise-Elisabeth Poucher, widow of Louis de Messire Louis Cajeul, Marquis de Liancourt, and was leased to the Lavoisiers by the great-uncle of Lavoisier in 1740, whose name was Waroquier [Lavoisier was born here in 1743]. There was a courtyard with a main window overlooking it; with adjoining wells, furnishings, kitchen, and small hall with basement, two bedrooms, dressing-room, a reading room, a lavatory, a large attic, and a balcony overlooking the cul-de-sac. Lavoisier lived here 1743-1748; he moved to the new address on Four-St. Eustache when his mother died in 1748.
