Square d'Orléans

The Square d’Orléans hides behind an unassuming carriage entrance on the Rue Taitbout. It is a cluster of private townhouses arranged in a circle around an enclosed garden, a rare remnant of the romantic era in Paris. In eighteen forty-two, Frédéric Chopin moved into number nine, while his friend George Sand settled into the house next door. They lived here in separate dwellings, connected only by the shared garden where they spent their evenings and hosted private salons for the musical elite.