Well , do n't forget about us , '' Bruno Quantin , a spokesman for the Musee Carnavalet -- in a petit-mus ee - dense area between the Marais and the Place des Vosges -- said , reminding me that the museum is in fact composed of two important hotels particuliers , as grander family homes were known back in Marie Antoinette 's day , combined and expanded during the sweeping urban revamp of Paris in the second half of the 19th century .