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Where to Stay in the Latin Quarter

These hotels place you in different parts of the Latin Quarter: beside the Panthéon, near Place de la Contrescarpe, or close to Notre-Dame and today’s Shakespeare and Company.

Choose Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon for the monument and university hill, Hôtel des Grandes Écoles for Cardinal-Lemoine and Place de la Contrescarpe, or Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin for today’s Shakespeare and Company and Notre-Dame.

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Three parts of the Latin Quarter

Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon faces the monument at the top of the quarter. Hôtel des Grandes Écoles sits near Cardinal-Lemoine and Place de la Contrescarpe. Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin is in the lower quarter, closer to Saint-Michel, Notre-Dame, and today’s Shakespeare and Company.

Plan around the places

See what each hotel puts within your orbit

A quick guide to the cafés, bookshops, and landmarks that pair naturally with each stay. This shows relationships, not street distances.

Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon
19 place du Panthéon
- Place de la Contrescarpe
  Anchors the upper Latin Quarter and Mouffetard side of the trip.
- Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company
  Adds the original Odéon bookshop as a distinct literary outing.
- Notre-Dame de Paris
  Represents the lower-quarter river destination reached on a separate outing.
Hôtel des Grandes Écoles
75 rue du Cardinal Lemoine
- Place de la Contrescarpe
  Keeps the Contrescarpe and Mouffetard literary geography central.
- Notre-Dame de Paris
  Adds the river and cathedral as a lower-quarter outing.
- Shakespeare and Company, rue de la Bûcherie
  Today’s Shakespeare and Company is in the lower Latin Quarter, closer to the Seine.
Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin
22 rue de la Parcheminerie
- Shakespeare and Company, rue de la Bûcherie
  Today’s bookshop at 37 rue de la Bûcherie.
- Notre-Dame de Paris
  Beside the Seine in the lower Latin Quarter.
- Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company
  Sylvia Beach’s original shop at 12 rue de l’Odéon, separate from today’s bookshop.

Hotels to consider

Character and history

Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon

19 place du Panthéon · 75005 Paris

Choose Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon for the monument, Place de la Contrescarpe, and the upper Latin Quarter. Its interiors celebrate women including the writer George Sand.

Good to know: Notre-Dame and today’s Shakespeare and Company are in the lower Latin Quarter rather than around the hotel.

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Character and history

Hôtel des Grandes Écoles

75 rue du Cardinal Lemoine · 75005 Paris

Choose Hôtel des Grandes Écoles for its courtyard and garden near Cardinal-Lemoine, Place de la Contrescarpe, and rue Mouffetard.

Good to know: AFAR describes the rooms as small by American standards and the bathrooms as simple; the courtyard and neighborhood are the main attractions.

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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. Photo: Eugène Atget. Source · CC0

Well placed for exploring

Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin

22 rue de la Parcheminerie · 75005 Paris

Choose Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin for its pedestrian-street setting near today’s Shakespeare and Company, Notre-Dame, and Saint-Michel.

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

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