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Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin

22 rue de la Parcheminerie · 75005 Paris

An intimate four-star hotel on a pedestrian Latin Quarter street, well placed for Notre-Dame, Saint-Michel, the Seine, and today’s Shakespeare and Company.

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Watercolor illustration of Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin’s pale corner façade and arched entrance at number 22.
Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin’s present-day exterior on rue de la Parcheminerie. Editorial illustration.

A closer look

Inside Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin

Three original editorial illustrations based on the hotel’s documented rooms, décor, and private pool.

Editorial illustration of a Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin room with botanical wallpaper, cream bedding, dark wood, and a velvet chair.
A classic room, interpreted from Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin’s documented materials and artwork. Editorial illustration.
Editorial illustration of a Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin terrace room with patterned wallpaper, plum curtains, and doors opening to Paris rooftops.
A deluxe terrace room, interpreted from the hotel’s documented private-terrace rooms. Editorial illustration.
Editorial illustration of a panoramic Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin room with sage accents, terrace doors, a double vanity, and rooftop views.
A panoramic room, interpreted from the hotel’s documented top-floor room and terrace details. Editorial illustration.

About Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin

Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin has 27 rooms on rue de la Parcheminerie, a pedestrian street in the lower Latin Quarter. Its scale is smaller than many nearby city hotels, while the Esprit de France collection supplies a fuller service layer than the address might suggest, including breakfast, afternoon snacks, room service, and concierge help.

This is the practical side of the Latin Quarter for Notre-Dame, the Seine, Sainte-Chapelle, Saint-Michel, and the operating Shakespeare and Company at 37 rue de la Bûcherie. Sylvia Beach’s original shop on rue de l’Odéon is a separate historical place, and the Panthéon and Cardinal-Lemoine streets sit uphill in the upper quarter.

Room choice changes the experience. The hotel offers single, Classic, Superior, Deluxe, family-connecting, panoramic Executive, and terrace categories. The panoramic and terrace features belong to specific rooms, so travelers booking for a view or outdoor space should select and confirm that exact category.

Good to know

The Panthéon and Cardinal-Lemoine are in the upper Latin Quarter rather than around the hotel.

Who this hotel suits

Best for

  • Notre-Dame, the Seine, and lower Latin Quarter sightseeing
  • Travelers who want a smaller hotel with four-star services
  • Couples or families comparing view, terrace, and connecting categories

Consider another area if

  • Place de la Contrescarpe is the center of your trip
  • You want Saint-Germain’s café district outside the door
  • You expect a rooftop view or terrace in every room category

The hotel address in history

This archival image documents the address at an earlier moment. It is historical context, not a picture of what the hotel looks like today.

Historic photograph of the doorway at 22 rue de la Parcheminerie around 1905.
The doorway at 22 rue de la Parcheminerie around 1905–1906, before the present hotel. Eugène Atget. Source · CC0

Location

What is nearby

22 rue de la Parcheminerie, 75005 Paris

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Lower Latin Quarter

Across the Left Bank

Plan a day from the hotel

Must-visit places nearby

Three cultural places that fit naturally into a stay at this address. Open each place for its history and practical visitor details.

Bookshop

Shakespeare and Company (Rue de la Bûcherie)

George Whitman's bookshop by the Seine — opened as Le Mistral in 1951, renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964 with Sylvia Beach's blessing, and still sleeping writers among its shelves.

Landmark

Notre-Dame de Paris

The cathedral seen at night from the wooden footbridge off the Quai de Béthune — the still point of the finest walk in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, answered a decade later from the same river in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

Park

Jardin du Luxembourg

Ernest Hemingway's daily shortcut and his hungry-day refuge — the park where he walked to avoid the smell of food, and studied the Cézannes in its museum on an empty stomach.