Where to stay · Boutique hotel · €€ · 6e · Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Hôtel des Académies et des Arts
Twenty rooms on the Montparnasse street where Modigliani and Foujita kept studios and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière still teaches life drawing. Sculpture and contemporary works through the rooms, a small courtyard.
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Rooms are compact in the Montparnasse way; the draw is the artists' street outside.
Getting there
- Vavin4100 m · 2 min walk
- Edgar Quinet6340 m · 6 min walk
- Notre-Dame-des-Champs12340 m · 6 min walk
Around the corner
La Coupole · 130 m away
La Coupole, also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 or Schotterwerk Nordwest, is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers south-southeast from the less developed Blockhaus d'Éperlecques V-2 launch installation in the same area. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England and is the earliest known precursor to modern underground missile silos still in existence.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Literary Cafésstop 7 of 7 · 130 m
La Coupole
Opened 1927 with 33 painted columns by 27 different artists. Capacity 600 — possibly the largest brasserie in Europe. Josephine Baker brought her cheetah to dinner here; Camus celebrated his Nobel in 1957 in the back.
Walk in just to look up — the columns are the point. The lamb curry has been on the menu unchanged since opening. After dinner the basement dance hall sometimes has tango on weekends; check posters at the door.
- Bouillons & Brasseriesstop 6 of 6 · 130 m
La Coupole
102 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 1927. Already a stop on the Literary Cafés tour, but worth ending here for dinner — the Art Deco columns light up at night and the lamb curry has been on the menu, unchanged, since opening.
Reserve in advance. Ask for a table along the perimeter so you can see the painted columns properly. Don't skip the curry just because it's been on the menu for a century — that's the point.
- Paris Verticalstop 5 of 6 · 620 m
Tour Montparnasse
210 m. The 56th-floor observation deck and rooftop terrace. The single best view of the Eiffel Tower in the city — because you're looking at it from above, with the whole of central Paris between.
Take the lift (38 seconds) to floor 56, then a short staircase to the open-air rooftop. Better than the Eiffel for sunset because the Eiffel is in your photo. Closed for maintenance occasionally; check the day-of schedule.
- Where the Writers Livedstop 4 of 6 · 640 m
Beauvoir, 11bis Rue Schoelcher
Beauvoir lived in a top-floor studio here from 1955 until her death in 1986, looking directly across at Montparnasse Cemetery (where she's now buried with Sartre). She wrote The Mandarins, Les Belles Images, and her Memoirs from this room. Bookshelves, a futon-like bed, photographs of her travels — preserved by friends after her death.
Private apartment, no plaque. Stand on the street opposite to see her windows, then walk into the cemetery (entrance one block south, free) — Beauvoir and Sartre's joint grave is in division 20, easy to find from the map at the entrance.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Hôtel Raspail MontparnasseArt Deco boutique hotel€€ · 1 minAn Art Deco building at the Raspail–Montparnasse crossroads, in the quarter the painters actually worked — Modigliani, Man Ray, the Montparnos. Several upper rooms look toward the Montparnasse tower.
- Lenox MontparnasseBoutique hotel€€ · 4 minA 19th-century Haussmann block on rue Delambre, the street where Man Ray kept a studio and the Montparnasse drinkers kept rooms; reworked with a small bar off the lobby. Scores consistently high for comfort and location.
- Hôtel AiglonArt Deco design hotel€€ · 5 minA 1930s building on Boulevard Raspail that takes its Art Deco seriously: a 2023 redo brought 46 bespoke bathroom mosaics and an entrance fresco by Mathilde Jonquière. Raspail métro across the road, Montparnasse cemetery a block south.
- Musée ZadkineFree sculptor's studio-museum€ · 5 minOssip Zadkine carved in this low cottage off rue d'Assas from 1928 to 1967, and his Cubist figures now stand among the plane trees of its small garden as if they grew there. One of only a handful of intact artists' studios left in the city.
- La Crêperie de JosselinCrêperie€€ · 7 minA Montparnasse fixture on a street stacked with rival crêperies, Josselin wins the block on a thick, lace-edged buckwheat galette and a permanent queue. Order the galette complète and finish with a salted-butter caramel crêpe that arrives properly drenched.
The district · 6e
Saint-Germain-des-Prés — The literary Left BankThe cafés where the existentialists held court — Flore, Deux Magots, Lipp — plus the Luxembourg Gardens and the city's densest run of galleries and antiquaires. Expensive, polished, and aware of it.
Best for: Those who want the postcard Left Bank and have the budget for it.
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