The Carnavalet Museum which is a must see for Paris lovers. Fully devoted to the history and transformation of Paris, the museum occupies two superb XVIth and XVIIth century palaces : the hotel Carnavalet, where Mme de Sevigne spent the last 20 years of her life and the Hotel Le Pelletier de Saint Fargeau. Out of the beaten track, far from the huge crowds of the Louvre or Orsay museum, you will discover reconstituted palace rooms, shop signs, reduce scale models, paintings of Paris at different times, etc...