From our guide to Paris Hotels
With the colours and textures of the south and much imagination, an ancient Paris townhouse has become a very cosy hotel right on the river. Only consider the darling lacey mimosa-encrusted petticoats...
The Île Saint Louis is the most exclusive 17th-century village in Paris and this renovated 'tennis court' - three storeys soar to the roof timbers - is one of the most exceptional sights...
The particular vitality of Paris has weathered great storms over the last few hundred years. The Parisians can fall back on deep-seated instincts, eccentricities, traditions and attitudes. They have flocked in their thousands to the new 'Indigenous Arts' museum on Quai Branly. They still see, perhaps, 'honour in seduction, triumph in a well-cooked entrecôte and world supremacy in a bottle of grand cru' –- even if their national wines are regularly knocked off their pedestals by newcomers.
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