Laure Nermel

Hi! I’m Laure (but everybody calls me Lo). Growing up between the Left Bank and the vineyards of Bourgogne, I then crossed the Seine River to settle in the Marais. I started to study Art History at University of Cape Town. From 2011 to 2014, my passion for museums led me to complete two MAs (one in Paris, the other at University of Westminster). In 2025, I finally got my PhD (yeay)! My dissertation explored the creative practices of Pre-Raphaelite painter-poet Elizabeth Siddal. 

My first tour was in 2014, set in the Latin Quarter, a place I love because of its many bookshops. Two years after, I got my guide certification, so I could devise tours in my fave Parisian sites: the Orsay and Rodin museums, the Opera house… You’ll easily find me compulsively double-checking facts behind the shelves of the National Art History Library, a few steps from the Louvre. I am also fond of the outdoors, especially the gardens of Versailles or the village of Giverny, dwelling place of Claude Monet. 

But there’s nothing that I’m more passionate about than talking about women artists and authors to redress the balance and envision history as all-inclusive. That’s why, since 2018, I’ve been curating specialised walks on female heritage in the Louvre, the Orsay Museum and the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Wish to know how Mary Cassatt joined the Impressionists or to follow the footsteps of Zelda Fitzgerald? These tours are crafted for you!