Where to stay · Boutique hotel · €€€ · 7e · Eiffel Tower & Invalides

Hôtel Montalembert

A 1926 address off rue du Bac, long the canteen of the Left Bank's publishing houses, reopened after a Pascal Allaman redesign in restrained 1930s register. Fifty rooms, a Clefs d'Or concierge, the Musée d'Orsay a few minutes' walk away.

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Getting there

• Rue du Bac12230 m · 4 min walk
• Solférino12400 m · 7 min walk
• Musée d'OrsayRER C410 m · 8 min walk

Around the corner

Walks that pass nearby

• Rainy Day Parisstop 5 of 6 · 370 m

  Musée d'Orsay

  Inside a converted 1900 Beaux-Arts railway station. Houses the world's greatest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings: Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas. The grand-clock view from the fifth floor — through the giant transparent station-clock face — is the unexpected photograph.

  Free first Sunday of each month. Bag the impressionist galleries on the fifth floor first (the most-visited rooms; emptier in late afternoon as crowds thin). The two giant clock-face windows — one in the café, one in the corner of the impressionist galleries — are the photograph.

• Literary Cafésstop 2 of 7 · 470 m

  Brasserie Lipp

  Alsatian brasserie founded 1880. Hemingway wrote that he came here to eat "as well as he could" when broke; the pommes à l'huile and demi blonde are still on the menu. The downstairs ground floor is the literary one — upstairs is for tourists.

  The waiter at the door decides where you sit. Looking like a regular helps; asking specifically for the ground floor sometimes works. The pommes à l'huile is still €12 and still the best dish on the menu.

• Saint-Germain in 90 minutesstop 1 of 6 · 560 m

  Saint-Germain-des-Prés

  The oldest church in Paris — first built 543, mostly rebuilt 990–1014 in Romanesque style. The sole surviving Romanesque tower in the city; the bells inside are 12th-century and still ring. The interior was repainted in vivid colour in a 2018–2021 restoration.

  Free entry. Walk to the apse (back) for the painted ceiling — the central blue-and-gold roof is the restored medieval colouring. Mass on Sundays at 11; the choir is one of the best in central Paris. Outside, Café de Flore is across the boulevard.

Within a few minutes' walk

• DeyrolleCuriosity shop€ · 2 minA working taxidermy house from 1831 whose first-floor showroom is a genuine cabinet of curiosities — lions, bears, cases of iridescent butterflies — open to wander for free.
• La Villa Saint-Germain-des-PrésDesign hotel€€€ · 9 minTwenty-two rooms on rue Jacob, the bookish Left Bank street that has housed writers since the eighteenth century, redesigned by Bruno Borrione with clean lines and a counter-current pool and sauna in the basement.
• Hôtel Signature Saint-GermainBoutique hotel€€ · 10 minThe Prigent family's 26-room reworking of an older hotel into something mid-century and colour-blocked, a block from the Bon Marché.
• Hôtel des MarronniersGarden boutique hotel€€ · 10 minReached down a paved courtyard off rue Jacob, with a chestnut-tree garden where breakfast is served in summer and a glass conservatory looking onto it.

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