Musée Pierre Corneille

Literary Museum located in the birthplace of the writer, he lived from his birth in 1606 to 1662, and sold it in 1683. The donation by Edward Pelay, bibliophile Rouen, a magnificent collection of Corneille, rich in many editions and beautiful bindings, took place in 1917 in the museum where you can see the recreation of a workroom (furniture seventeenth century). In addition, a large model of the Old Market Square to discover the parish of Saint-Sauveur in the sixteenth century, the neighborhood in which the house is located. It also contains an ebony cabinet that belonged to the great playwright, a set of documents referring to representations of the works of Corneille origins to the present, as well as portraits and prints relating to Pierre and Thomas Corneille and city ​​of Rouen.