From our guide to Paris Hotels
Relaxed and affable, Michel Sahuc is an enthusiast and his style informs his hotel: the receptionist may choose the music playing over the desk but the gently smartly stripey salon...
The newly renovated Monceau is a lesson in refined, understated elegance. Antique arched doors separate the reception areas: grey velvety sofas and oak floors on one side...
The particular vitality of Paris has weathered great storms over the last few hundred years. The Parisians can fall back on deep-seated instincts, eccentricities, traditions and attitudes. They have flocked in their thousands to the new 'Indigenous Arts' museum on Quai Branly. They still see, perhaps, 'honour in seduction, triumph in a well-cooked entrecôte and world supremacy in a bottle of grand cru' –- even if their national wines are regularly knocked off their pedestals by newcomers.
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