Hôtel Duc de Saint-Simon - Hotel Paris
Area
Standing close to the Eiffel Tower, the hotel Prince offers you the opportunity of staying in one of the most prestigious districts of Paris.
Nearby, the Champs de Mars, Invalides, Ecole Militaire, the Orsay Museum, of course, we shall not forget the walking distance to the Champs Elysées.
Orsay Museum
The musée d'Orsay was redeveloped in the old Gare d'Orsay, built by Victor Laloux and inaugurated in 1900 for the Universal Exhibition. It was registered as a listed building in 1978.
The museum was opened in December 1986 and was dedicated to all artistic production from 1848 to 1914. Paintings, pastels, sculptures, furniture and objets d'art, photography and documentary objects reflect the richness and diversity of this era.
Invalides
In 1670, King Louis XIV adopted the plans of Libéral Bruant for the construction of a hospital for invalided soldiers, otherwise condemned to begging or theft. The works, the second most significant, after those of Versailles commenced in 1671. The Soldiers church opened in 1677. However, it was not until 1706 that the consecration of the royal church, celebrated for its gilded dome, marked the end of the work. Today the Dome of the Invalides contains the ashes of Napoleon brought back in 1840.
The Eiffel Tower
Set up as 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, the speedboat of which she was, the Eiffel Tower, of its 350 metres high, stays the up Paris in the edges of the Seine.
Saint Germain des Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is for a long time a district in the particular charm at which the mystery does not stop amazing and inspiring numerous authors.
The suburb develops bit by bit to become from the XVIIth the home of the literary and dramatic world. Already the artists take for custom to meet in the numerous cafes which bloom(prosper) in the district, such Procope which opens its doors in 1689 to the fair Saint Germain.
After the Revolution the district is abandoned to return fashionably only after the second World war. Indeed the district takes up with a certain intellectual tradition; it is the time of the cellars of St-Germain-des-Prés associated to famous names such as Vian, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir whom we could see in the Café de Flore or in Les Deux Magots.
Hôtel Duc de Saint-Simon - Hotel Paris