Hotel Du Quai Voltaire — Paris, France
About Hotel Du Quai Voltaire
You might stay at this hotel and barely notice its literary credentials. Today, it's a boutique hotel overlooking the Louvre and a main thoroughfare along the Seine. But it's served as a base for French writers Pierre Reverdy, Antoine Blondin, and Marcel Aymé, all of whom helped cement its reputation as a haunt of Parisian letters. Add Oscar Wilde to the mix, pepper with Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, sprinkle in regular guest Ernest Hemingway, and top it off with Baudelaire, who wrote Fleurs du Mal on site, and you have a serious contender for France's most literary site. The hotel has historical and artistic roots that branch out of literary lore, too. Wagner completed the libretto of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ( Les Maîtres Chanteurs ) here in the 1860s. Filmmaker Louis Malle made the hotel a setting in his 1963 film, Le Feu follet ( Das Irrlicht ). Impressionist painter Camille…
Literary significance
Décor is traditional Left Bank: patterned fabrics, simple antiques, each room a bit different in layout and view, but no “Baudelaire Suite” with curated memorabilia, etc.
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Location
19 Quai Voltaire, 75007 Paris, France