Nicolas Flamel. Paper Alchemist

Musée du Cluny, 28, rue du Sommerard

Visionary alchemist, immortal, magician, holder of universal secrets… Nicolas Flamel is one of those figures who feed fantasies! But what about the historical reality of this Parisian bourgeois from the 14th century? The Cluny Museum houses one of the most tangible traces of Nicolas Flamel’s existence: his tombstone. Surrounding this epitaph and archival documents, a story of Flamel emerges: that of a public writer who was also a major donor to religious and charitable works and a shrewd real estate investor. No mention of pierre phil…