This wonderfully atmospheric 1895 house on the riverfront was once the residence of Huynh Thuy Le, the 27-year-old son of a rich Chinese family who Marguerite Duras had an affair with in 1929 when she was only 15 – immortalising the romance in The Lover . The house is a Sino-French design with intricate interior woodwork and original tiled floors. It’s possible to stay overnight in one of two charming but basic rooms here
