Homes of France's Great Composer César Franck

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Photos 1 & 2 on left: In 1845, the Franck family moved to paris from Belguim to a home in this building located at 15 rue La Bruyère.

Photos 3, 4 & 5 on left: Franck took an apartment at 45 rue Blanche to get away from his dominating father and to be near the home of his fiance, with whom his father objected.

Bottom photo on left: This is Notre Dame de Lorette, the church where César Franck was wed to his fiancé and where he got his first position as (assistant) organist. This church houses the first organ built by the great builder Aristide Cavaillé Coll.

Top photo on the right: This building at 69 Rue blanche. He got married and they couple moved in here. It is "down the road" from his previous home:

Photos 2 through 5 on right: This is Franck's final home, where he composed some of the greatest works of the 19th Century, and where many of France's great composers met and studied. It is located at 95 Boulevard Saint-Michel.

The last photo is the monument of César Franck at the Organ created in 1904 by Alfred-Charles Lenoir and placed in the Square Samuel-Rousseau across the street from Sainte-Clotilde, where Franck was the organist from 1858 to his death in 1890.