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Room With a View: Hotel des Grands Hommes

Where: 17, Place du Panthéon, Paris, Ile de France, France, 75005

July 7, 2006 at 2:35 PM | 0 Comments

Paris--yeah, yeah, big deal. Who hasn't done Paris? There is always talk about favorite hotels near the Champs Elysees, just off the Eiffel Tower, or St. German des Pres. So for your next Parisian stay, why not get in the real spirit of true French culture and choose your hotel based on an artist's photograph?

We love that other nation's hotel blogs love to brag about pools and cocktail choices. But  French blog, Hotels Rive-Gauche, "aiment la photographie", they love it so much that they spotlighted Frank Beloncle this month and his artistic shot from the window of a room in the Hotel des Grands Hommes. The room with a view provides an up-close and personal look at the Pantheon (place where dead people are buried). The hotel has all the charm one would expect of a Parisian hotel; breakfast terrace off the rooms, antiques, well-dressed staff. But don't forget that that is not why you are choosing this hotel. You are choosing this hotel because you saw a moody photograph from an inspired artiste, taken from one of its chambres.

Beloncle explains the passion he felt from the room, and when you explain your hotel choice, we advise sticking to his script (to sound all the more in-the-know):

In this blue room, I felt at home. So close to the enormous monument (Pantheon). So close, that it brought me much pleasure having it by my side during the night.

As you sit in Café de Flore with a cigarette and dressed in head to toe black, remember to say with a pout when asked your hotel, that you chose the Hotel Grands Hommes because that blue room next to the Pantheon filled your soul with a certain...je ne sais quoi.

Related Stories:
· Hotels Rive-Gauche aiment La Photograhie [Hotels Rive Gauche]
· Hotel des Grands Hommes Reviews [TripAdvisor]