Maison natale de Descartes, actuellement Musée Descartes

English translation

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History

According to tradition, Descartes would have been born in this house. It is a building in right-angle form, whose street facade must have been altered in the 17th century. On its right side subsists a small square stair tower which has retained its gable with crochets and, at the upper storeys, its character of the 15th century. The rear part, on the garden side, is constituted by the return of the building and followed by a low house which may be of the 18th century. Originally, the house consisted of two buildings developing on either side of a narrow central pavilion. The north building was demolished. The pavilion formerly central subsists.