{"id":3915,"date":"2025-12-16T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audioguide-paris.com\/?page_id=3915"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:20:09","slug":"passy-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/audioguide-paris.com\/index.php\/en\/passy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Passy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walk: \u201cSecrets of Passy: Hidden Springs and Art Nouveau\u201d<\/h4>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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What if, behind the very proper fa\u00e7ades of the 16th arrondissement, there lay a neighborhood of hermits, miraculous springs, monks\u2019 wines, penniless writers, and wildly visionary architects? From Rue Raynouard to Avenue Mozart, this\r\n walking tour through the Passy district takes you from a former hamlet of woodcutters to a Paris of secret cellars, private mansions, and Art Nouveau marvels.<\/p>\r\n

What remains of the thermal springs where Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin, or Rousseau once came to heal? Where is the Wine Museum hidden in former medieval quarries, and what wine did monks offer to Louis XIII on these hills once covered\r\n in vineyards? The audio guide leads you down the discreet Rue des Eaux, behind doors that most passersby never notice.<\/p>\r\n

You\u2019ll also discover a literary and slightly rocambolesque side of Passy: Honor\u00e9 de Balzac\u2019s house, where the writer lived under a pseudonym and used two separate exits to escape his creditors; a village church that became Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\r\n de Passy; and the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, a modern hive where thousands of people create the country\u2019s \u201csoundscape\u201d every day.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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Further along, the walk shifts into the realm of Art Nouveau: Hector Guimard\u2019s Castel B\u00e9ranger, the Francis Poulenc Conservatory alive with rehearsals, the elegant H\u00f4tel Mezzara, then Avenue Mozart and the extraordinary H\u00f4tel Guimard,\r\n which the architect had dreamed of giving to the state as an Art Nouveau museum. Why was this project never completed? And which fa\u00e7ade details will you surely miss if no one points them out?<\/p>\r\n

Between architectural stops, the audio guide also invites you into a more spiritual and intimate Passy: the Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se chapel with relics of Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux, Rue de la Source leading to once-famous miraculous waters, and a chic\r\n village atmosphere where you can walk in the footsteps of Jackie Kennedy, famous musicians, and people seeking health, faith\u2026 or simply tranquility.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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