Printing workshop, Musee Balzac, Chateau de Sache
Printing workshop, 19th century, with antique presses, where Balzac worked as a printer 1826-28, in the Chateau de Sache, a Renaissance manor house built 15th century, in Sache near Tours in the Loire Valley, France. The collection includes a Stanhope printing press, lithography press, bookbinder and antique guillotine. Jean Margonne owned the building in the 19th century and Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, French novelist and playwright, stayed here many times from 1825 to 1840, working and writing. The chateau now houses the Musee Balzac and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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1799-1850 1825 Argonne Balzac Bookbinder Centre-val Guillotine Honore Includes Indre Indre-et-loire Lithography Margonne Presses Printer Printmaking Sache Stanhope Stayed Touraine Tours
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