This 17th-century bourgeois house in the Rue de la Mocquerie (now Rue Jean Garnier) houses a fireplace from the same period, with an elaborate mantelpiece measuring around two metres.
The house was bought in 1705 by Didier Diderot, a cutler from Langon, father of Denis (the encyclopaedist), Denise and Didier-Pierre (canon and then grand archdeacon). After the cutler's death in 1759, the house remained undivided between his three children, but it was most often the residence of Canon Didier-Pierre, who had a small side chapel built there in 1777 so that he could celebrate mass there with his visiting ecclesiastical friends, for the inhabitants of this area, which was quite far from the parish church. All that remains today is the building, which has been converted into a storeroom and then a coach house. In reality, Denis Diderot rarely came to Cohons, to the house he familiarly called "ma chaumière" (my thatched cottage), which he affectionately described as "the cellar of our grape harvests and the granary of our harvests". On the other hand, he regularly had "wine, vegetables and pheasants" sent to Paris from this small family estate in Cohons.
When Denis Diderot died in 1784 and the canon in 1787, the house passed to Angélique, daughter of Denis Diderot, who was married to Caroillon de Vandeul. It then passed through the Drevon family (related to the Diderots), the Simon family and finally the Emery and Nicard families of Langres.
Not open to visitors: private site only visible from the outside.
La maison Diderot de Cohons
