According to lore, a winemaker charmed Louis XIV into making the neighborhood a sort of 18th-century tax haven, permitting vintners to operate tax free. ”Īs the collection swelled to thousands of objects, Favand outgrew a succession of exhibition spaces before moving to the museum’s current location in Les Pavillons de Bercy in 1996. “Popular arts were no interest for the antiques. “In the ’60s, everybody thinks that this is, these kind of objects, the horses,” said my straight-talking and plucky tour guide, Joris Bedeau. He was also an antiques dealer and restaurateur and became a collector of theatrical and carnival curiosities, including carousel horses, which he displayed at his shop and bistro. Jean-Paul Favand once worked as an actor, and with his long, white ponytail and chevron-shaped mustache, he certainly looks the part of an eccentric artist.
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