Moulin de Claude François, House museum in Dannemois, France.

The Moulin de Claude François is a house museum in Dannemois, France, set in a former communal water mill on the École river. The stone house has two steeply pitched reddish-brown roofs, an attached lower wing, and a separate stone outbuilding with a small chimney; a low wall runs along the road in front, and a curved pool lies to the right. Inside, the museum displays gold records, stage costumes, shoes, cars, handwritten letters, posters and personal effects.

Claude François bought this former communal water mill on the École in 1964, on the advice of Brigitte Bardot, and lived there until his death in 1978. A fire damaged the building on the night of 23 to 24 June 1973. Sold after his death, it stood abandoned for a decade until the Lescure family, bakers from the Dordogne, bought and restored it in 1998.

The performer spent his final years here and regularly welcomed guests from the French entertainment world. The rooms show his passion for design and technical innovations that were considered modern in the 1970s.

The museum opens Thursday to Monday, 11:00–12:00 and 14:00–16:00, with the afternoon slot running to 17:00 at weekends; it is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The property lies on the École river in Dannemois, about 55 km south of Paris near the A6 motorway. The visit covers the singer's private room and the converted barn known as the American house.

The heart-shaped swimming pool was a larger copy of the one at Elvis Presley's Graceland, fitted with an underwater speaker so music could be heard while swimming. Claude François also kept a giant seawater aquarium of exotic Red Sea fish, a wine cellar, a sauna and a tennis court on the grounds.