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Hotels Near Shakespeare and Company Bookshop

Three stays near today’s Shakespeare and Company beside Notre-Dame—not Sylvia Beach’s original shop on rue de l’Odéon.

Choose Hôtel Esmeralda for the bookshop’s own block, Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin for rue de la Parcheminerie, or Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin for Saint-Michel.

Illustration of a Seine-side Latin Quarter street with booksellers, a hotel doorway, and Notre-Dame nearby.
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This guide means the current bookshop

Today’s Shakespeare and Company is at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, beside Square René Viviani. Sylvia Beach’s original Shakespeare and Company was at 12 rue de l’Odéon. These recommendations are for the present-day bookshop near Notre-Dame.

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.

  1. Hôtel Esmeralda

    4 rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre

  2. Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin

    22 rue de la Parcheminerie

  3. Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin

    38-40 rue Saint-Séverin

Hotels to consider

The pale stone exterior and blue sign of Hôtel Esmeralda on rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre.
Hôtel Esmeralda, photographed in 2012. Photo: Lovisa Jansson. Source · CC BY 2.0

Character and history

Hôtel Esmeralda

4 rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre · 75005 Paris

This small hotel shares a block with Square René Viviani and today’s Shakespeare and Company at 37 rue de la Bûcherie.

Good to know: If most of the trip is centered on Saint-Germain or Montparnasse, another neighborhood will reduce daily travel.

Places to explore

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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.

Places to explore

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Pedestrians and cafés on rue Saint-Séverin near Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin.
Rue Saint-Séverin near Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin, photographed in 2021. Photo: Chabe01. Source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Well placed for exploring

Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin

38-40 rue Saint-Séverin · 75005 Paris

Choose Hôtel Europe Saint-Séverin for Saint-Michel, the Seine, Notre-Dame, and today’s Shakespeare and Company.

Good to know: This 59-room hotel offers a different scale and setting from the 27-room Hôtel Parc Saint-Séverin on rue de la Parcheminerie.

Places to explore

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