Balzac wrote his novels in secret at the Château de Saché

The Château de Saché is a residence in Touraine where the writer Balzac came to escape Paris and his creditors. He wrote great novels there such as Le Père Goriot, Illusions perdues or La Recherche de l'absolu. His small room on the second floor has been kept as it was and the site became a museum in 1951.