Nicolas Flamel Home - Paris

The Nicolas Flamel House is located on rue de Montmorency in Paris, France.  The noted scrivener and his wife, Perenelle, built this inn in 1407.  Today it is the oldest standing stone house in Paris.  At the time of its construction the inn sat at the edge of town, close to the farmland, and catered to workers coming and going from the fields.  The ground floor was run as a tavern, while the top floors were used as lodgings.  Flamel and his wife were philanthropists, who bought and sold land, and donated to charitable organizations.  It was only in later years that Flamel earned a reputation as an alchemist and the creator of the Philospher's Stone, although there is little evidence to suggest that he dabbled in the arts at any time during his life.  Today the former inn is run as a restaurant, the Auberge Nicolas Flamel.  

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