The Church of Saint Germain des Pres, the oldest in Paris ...

But also CAFES ... bookshops ... the shops ... the JAZZ ... the BISTROTS ... LIFE ... LA BOHEME ... the party ... the cinema ... the THEATRES ... the night ...

It is at this heart of Paris, full of life, that the sun from the Hotel Louis II shines .

One façade on St Sulpice 300 meters far away of the church, and the other on the rue de Condé.

The hotel is named after Louis II de Condé, cousin of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
Distinguished Soldier, Aesthetics and Philosoph, the great Conde was a friend of Molière, Boileau, La Fontaine, Bossuet. The atmosphere of those days still permeates the houses of the fifteenth century St Germain des Pres.

The musketeers of Louis XIV celebrated by Alexandre Dumas lived nearby: Athos in  Ferou Street, Aramis in Servandoni Street, Porthos in Vieux Colombier street.

In this neighborhood of publishers, booksellers, Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company bookstore at 12 rue de l'Odeon, Adrienne Monier to 7.

William Faulkner, Henry Miller and Ernest Hemingway loved hanging out in these parts of the street Ferou, the Luxembourg Gardens, before sitting in the bars of Montparnasse.

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived 58 rue de Vaugirard.

In the 40's, Picasso and Cocteau lunched Place de l'Odeon. And a few years later, jazz led you in the cellars where they dance on the music of Boris Vian and the songs of Juliette Greco.

School of Fine Arts, art galleries, the Orsay museum, shops decoration or haute couture, it is both an expression of French cultural history and the expression of modernity.

The famous cafes, Le Flore, Les Deux Magots, the Procope (the oldest cafe in Paris) hosted Romanticism, Impressionism, Existentialism, Surrealism ...

Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Picasso, Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were inspired by these places.

The district of St Germain des Prés, the cradle of intellectual and artistic history of Paris and France, has kept all his personality.

He blows a free spirit with an indescribable fragrance village.

Walking:

30 seconds: Boulevard Saint Germain
1 minute: Church of Saint Sulpice, the Odeon Theatre
5 minutes: Luxembourg Gardens & Palace, Senate
10 minutes: the Sorbonne, the Church of St. Severin
15 minutes: the Pantheon, Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre Museum
20 minutes: the Arenes de Lutece, the Orsay Museum, Montparnasse
A metro or RER:

5 minutes: St. Michel, Notre Dame de Paris, the Gare Montparnasse
10 minutes: the Musée d'Orsay, the Louvre Museum
15 minutes: the Champs Elysées, Place de la Concorde
20 minutes: the Place de l'Etoile, the Eiffel Tower