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Saint-Germain des Prés With an ever increasing number of boutiques to choose from, including Armani, Christian Dior and Cartier, as well as a wealth of antique shops, galleries and cafés to explore, the Left Bank is undergoing a renaissance unparalleled since the heyday of Sartre and Existentialism.
Hotel Bel Ami is located just steps away from St. Germain des Prés and minutes from the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, the haunts of Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their Existentialist cohorts. Whilst in recent years, the large fashion houses including Christian Dior and Emporio Armani have been drawn to the Left Bank, St Germain continues to attract the artists, intellectuals and radicals who have traditionally laid claim to it. It is entirely fitting therefore, that Hotel Bel Ami, its facade bearing all the hallmarks of the Industrial Revolution and a converted print works, should share the name of one of France's most celebrated literary oeuvres of that time, Bel Ami, the fin-de-siecle masterpiece written by Guy de Maupassant. |
