Musée Rabelais, Maison La Devinière
Musée Rabelais, Maison La Devinière, Renaissance writer museum in Seuilly, France.
The Rabelais Museum encompasses a 15th-century main house, a dovecote, troglodyte caves, and a winemaker's house surrounded by gardens and vineyards.
The museum occupies La Devinière, the birthplace of François Rabelais, who wrote his famous novels Gargantua and Pantagruel during the Renaissance period.
The museum exhibits original texts, manuscripts, and illustrations that showcase Rabelais's contributions as a writer, doctor, monk, and botanist.
Visitors can access the museum from April to October between 10:00 and 18:00, while winter hours run from November to March with modified schedules.
The surrounding landscape of La Devinière served as the setting for the Picrocholine Wars in Rabelais's literary masterwork Gargantua.
Location: Seuilly
Official opening: 1951
Address: La Devinière 37500
Opening Hours: April-June: 10:00-13:00,14:00-18:00; July-August: 10:00-19:00; September-October: 10:00-13:00,14:00-18:00; November-March: Monday,Wednesday-Sunday 10:00-12:30,14:00-17:00
Phone: +33247959118
Website: http://musee-rabelais.fr
GPS coordinates: 47.14051,0.17848
Latest update: June 23, 2025 09:45
France preserves the homes of its greatest writers, transformed today into literary museums. From Balzac's house in Paris, where the author of 'The Human Comedy' wrote his novels while drinking countless coffees, to Nohant Castle in Berry where George Sand met Chopin and Flaubert, these places tell the story of French literary creation. You can also visit Montaigne's tower in Périgord, where the philosopher wrote his Essays surrounded by his library, or the Château Monte-Cristo built by Alexandre Dumas after the success of his adventure novels. These houses offer direct access to the worlds of the authors who lived there. The priory of Saint-Cosme near Tours preserves the memory of Ronsard, a Renaissance poet, while the house of Aunt Léonie in Illiers-Combray takes visitors back to Marcel Proust’s childhood. In Normandy, Maurice Leblanc’s residence in Étretat celebrates Arsène Lupin’s universe, and in the Basque Country, the Arnaga villa showcases Edmond Rostand’s regional architecture, author of 'Cyrano de Bergerac.' Each visit helps understand how these writers lived, worked, and drew inspiration from their daily environments.
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