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Paris — France
Hôtel Ancelme — Paris, France
Twenty-four rooms in an 1893 building between Place Saint-Georges and Rue des Martyrs. The original staircase, with its cast-iron banister, serves all five floors.
- Hôtel Ancelme — Paris1893 · Photograph Polymagou
- Photograph Fabio Gargano
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The place
The building went up in 1893 for a notary from the neighbourhood. It keeps its original proportions: high ceilings on the first floor, sloped-ceiling rooms on the fifth. The mouldings in the salons were kept and repainted in off-white.
Rooms face the street or the cobbled courtyard. Those on the fifth floor look out over zinc rooftops. Breakfast is served on the ground floor, in what was once the building's dining room.
The neighbourhood
Place Saint-Georges, with its kiosk and fountain, is a three-minute walk. Rue des Martyrs runs down towards Notre-Dame-de-Lorette; its cheesemongers, wine shops and greengrocers open Tuesday through Sunday mornings. The Musée de la Vie romantique is eight minutes on foot, the Boulevard Haussmann department stores twelve.
Good to know
- 24 rooms over five floors, with a lift.
- Breakfast served from 7:30 to 10:30 am in the ground-floor room.
- Saint-Georges metro station (line 12) three minutes on foot, Gare Saint-Lazare twelve.
- Fifth-floor rooms have sloped ceilings, under the roof.
- No private parking; a public car park is five minutes away on foot.
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Paris
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Odéon, 6e arrondissement