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The 16th- century Hotel Donon has become the home of the Musee Cognacq-Jay. The facade and much of the collection is from the eighteenth-century. Covering four floors surrounding a courtyard, the twenty small rooms display the delightful collection assembled by Ernest Cognacq, founder of the Samaritaine (rue de Rivoli) department store, and his wife Louise Jay. It was bequeathed to the nation on his death in I928. |
