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Hôtel La Louisiane

60 rue de Seine · 75006 Paris

A long-running independent Saint-Germain hotel with more than 60 individually configured rooms and independently documented artistic and literary history.

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Watercolor illustration of Hôtel La Louisiane’s present-day red entrance and pale stone façade on rue de Seine.
Hôtel La Louisiane’s present-day entrance on rue de Seine. Editorial illustration.

Why stay here

Choose Hôtel La Louisiane for its history as a Saint-Germain address for writers, artists, and musicians.

Good to know

France-Amérique describes the rooms as spartan, so the appeal is the hotel’s character and history rather than polished luxury.

Places to explore nearby

Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company

Links rue de Seine to the original rue de l’Odéon bookshop story.

Café de Flore

One of Saint-Germain’s landmark cafés, alongside Les Deux Magots and Brasserie Lipp.

Les Deux Magots

On Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near the neighborhood’s other historic cafés.

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 view of the building at 60 rue de Seine in 1911.
60 rue de Seine in 1911—the address now occupied by Hôtel La Louisiane. Eugène Atget. Source · CC0