The Deal
Actually, it's a more respectable deal than that. Between 15 March - 30 June, for upwards of €300 per night for two people (minimum two nights), you get:

• Accommodation in one of Paris's deluxe hotels (see below for a run-down)
  
• Free admission to the temporary Marie Antoinette exhibition at the Grand Palais museum, which collects together around 300 works related to the party queen's short life and quick death
  
• A complimentary elaborate breakfast every day
  
• A tea box from Maison Ladurée, one of Paris's more ridiculous patisseries which are more like design museums than food shops proper.

The Hotels
If you're going to stay in a Concorde hotel, make it the Hotel Concorde St Lazare.

Everyone notices this place, or at least its entrance hall, which was renovated in all its chandelier glory by the man who owns Taittinger champagne and is now classed as a historic monument. Perfect Marie Antoinette fantasy land. It's right on the edge of a busy street but they've thankfully soundproofed the windows.

The others are all standard luxe 4- and 5-star Paris hotels, all conveniently, centrally located for big spenders, big eaters and big drinkers. You've got the Hotel Concorde Montparnasse (busy streets, sex clubs, small theatre-land), the Hotel Concorde La Fayette (huge place, 950 rooms, all filled with business people), the Hotel Ambassador (bland on the outside, art-deco on the inside), the Hotel Lutetia (opposite Le Bon Marché department store, which means 'cheap' in French but is the exact opposite), and the Hotel du Louvre (another old-fashioned luxe-palace, overrated in our opinion).

Is it a Deal?
If you're a young, hip traveller on a budget, a stay at a Concorde hotel will never be a good deal - stay in a budget hostel and rent out Sofia Coppola's 2006 film about the girl instead. But if you're a decadent soul after a relaxing weekend in a luxury hotel with a vaguely historical theme, it's pretty damn good. Book up quick - the Marie Antoinette hotel package is only available while the exhibition's on, between 15 March and 30 June 2008.

The only thing we'd change is the tea box from Maison Ladurée. Marie Antoinette's probably most famous for remarking casually that if the peasants were hungry because of a lack of bread, why didn't they eat cake instead? So never mind the tea. Where's the cake?

[Photo: IMDB]