Maison natale de François Mitterrand, Presidential birth house in Jarnac, France.

The Maison natale de François Mitterrand is a two-storey stone house in Jarnac, built in the early 19th century on the site of the former Protestant temple. Its light beige facade has five shuttered windows on the upper floor and four on the ground floor, all with light blue louvered shutters, and a central double door under a transom light. A stone plaque above the door reads "François Mitterrand" and the number 22.

The site previously held a Protestant temple that was demolished in 1685 after the Edict of Nantes was revoked. The Mitterrand family later built their residence on this spot, creating a place that united craft and family.

The house keeps the family's own rooms as they were: a Breton dining room, a pink salon, a small salon, a kitchen and an inner courtyard with a washhouse. Upstairs are the bedrooms, including the first-floor room where François Mitterrand was born on 26 October 1916. Family furniture, photographs, schoolbooks and manuscripts cover four generations of his mother's line.

The house stands in the centre of Jarnac, on the same street as the plaque bearing Mitterrand's name above the door. The museum opened in 2006, and the Institut François-Mitterrand has managed it since 2011, housing part of its historical archives there and receiving visitors and researchers. The interior is kept as it was in the family's time, so the visit covers the ground-floor rooms, the inner courtyard with its washhouse, the garden and the former vinegar works.

Jules Lorrain, son of Léon Beauprés Lorrain who bought the house in 1850, made cognac for a time before turning the family business to barrel-making and vinegar production at the end of the 19th century. The old cooperage and vinegar works survive inside the house and can be seen on the visit.