The house where Robespierre grew up is a modest eighteenth-century townhouse a short walk from the Place des Héros. It is now used partly as a museum and partly as a cultural centre. The interior is not extensively furnished but gives a good sense of the modest bourgeois background from which Robespierre came — a long way from the blood and spectacle of Paris.
The permanent exhibition covers Robespierre's life and his role in the Revolution, with some attempt at balance between the Incorruptible as idealist and the Incorruptible as architect of the Terror. The building itself is the main draw: a lived-in piece of pre-Revolutionary French provincial life that survived the twentieth century's bombardments.