After going up the seven front steps, you enter directly a room which probably was Manceau’s bedroom.
In the display case dedicated to him, on the left wall, a sketch from Eugene Grandsire shows him in 1858, standing, in boots, carrying an entomologist box scrapped across his chest and a net over the shoulder, coveting a butterfly the famous Algira maybe?
A beautiful portrait from Auguste Lehman dating back to 1849 – he is aged 32 – shows him in three – quarter profile, wearing scrubs, sitting near one of his engravings of La Roche Lambert from a drawing he made of George Sand in 1852 – she is aged 48 – we can feel all the tenderness the engraver had vowed for his lover until she died, on August 21th of 1845 in Palaiseau, in the house in which there is a representation showing the garden frontage.