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The only thing boutique hotels have in common these days is a desire to be different. You know it when you see it, and you\u2019ll see it at these hotels in Paris.<\/h4>\n

What even is a boutique hotel anymore? Damned if I know. It\u2019s easy to think of them as being small<\/em> and independent<\/em>. Those descriptors haven\u2019t been accurate in years, though. The rock-star hoteliers who helped define the genre are still creating groundbreaking new properties, but they\u2019re as likely to have 200 rooms and corporate overlords as not. <\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anything that binds boutique hotels these days, it\u2019s that they\u2019re not content to be conventional. Some are big, some are small, some are indie, some are chains. All have that ineffable thing that steers them away from the middle of the road. An aesthetic. A vibe. You know it when you see it. It\u2019s like when college rock went mainstream back in the late \u201980s and early \u201990s, jumping from the far left of the FM dial to the primetime blocks of MTV. The medium might\u2019ve changed, but the sensibilities stayed the same.<\/p>\n

The Paris hotels below are, without a doubt, boutique hotels. They strive for singularity. They have something to say, and they\u2019re fine if it\u2019s not what you want to hear. In a city known for hotels that exude personality \u2014 seriously, check out our Paris selection<\/a> \u2014 these are some of the boldest.
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H\u00f4tel Providence<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"H\u00f4tel<\/a><\/p>\n

The location, where the 10th meets the 3rd, is one of Paris\u2019s emerging hotspots, closer to Canal Saint Martin and the upper Marais than to any of the typical tourist destinations \u2014 it\u2019s largely uncharted territory for hotels, and there\u2019s no better feeling for a boutique hotelier than breaking new ground. Architect Philippe Medioni breathed new life into this once-derelict space, decorating the Providence in a style that\u2019s pure urban Parisian romance.<\/p>\n

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Edgar & Achille<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France <\/h5>\n

\"Edgar<\/a><\/p>\n

A hipster-friendly hotel located in an old textile workshop in the quickly evolving Parisian neighborhood known as Little Egypt. Edgar is actually the name of the son of Guillaume Rouget-Luchaire, the creative visionary behind the project. After closing his restaurant on the Marais, he snapped up the dilapidated factory. The result? A quirky but upscale boutique that feels like an indulgent large-scale art installation with a chic breakfast and complimentary bicycles for an impromptu spin around the second arrondissement.<\/p>\n

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C.O.Q. Hotel<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"C.O.Q.<\/a><\/p>\n

Designers Delphine Sauvaget and Pauline d\u2019Hoop, of l\u2019Agence Favorite, are well known for a series of hip restaurants, and they\u2019ve been given carte blanche for C.O.Q, their first hotel project. The result is a piece of serious design work, a proper high-quality (if low-frills) hotel, with a vibe that\u2019s low-key and homey \u2014 fitting, given that in this part of the Left Bank, near the Place d\u2019Italie, the most likely competitors are apartment shares, not boutique hotels.<\/p>\n

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Les Bains Paris<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Les<\/a><\/p>\n

Studio 54, New York\u2019s most notorious nightclub, is an ancestor of sorts (via Ian Schrager) to the whole boutique-hotel trend. But imagine its Parisian equivalent shutting its doors for a renovation and actually becoming a luxury boutique hotel, and you\u2019ve got the basic idea of what Les Bains is all about. In the late 1800s it was a public spa, and by 1980 Les Bains Douches was a bona fide den of celebrity-studded iniquity.<\/p>\n

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Ch\u00e2teau Voltaire<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Ch\u00e2teau<\/a><\/p>\n

The ultra-chic Ch\u00e2teau Voltaire is named not for the Enlightenment philosopher but for the fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire, for which hotelier Thierry Gillier is better known. For this venture, Mr. Gillier enlisted creative director Franck Durand and the Parisian architecture studio Festen to translate his aesthetic into a hospitality language, and the resulting hotel is every bit as stylish as its star-studded genealogy would suggest.<\/p>\n

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Sinner<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Sinner\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hoteliers EVOK, the group responsible for Parisian hotels Brach and Nolinski, have taken inspiration from the most colorful aspects of the Marais, and the proof is in the name: Sinner evokes both the ecclesiastical orders who first established this district and the contemporary pleasure-seekers who visit it today.<\/p>\n

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Hotel des Grands Boulevards<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Hotel<\/a><\/p>\n

Grands Boulevards makes its home in a freestanding house, or h\u00f4tel particulier<\/em>, that dates back to the days of the Revolution. It\u2019s a rarity in this busy corner of Paris, and it\u2019s hidden from the street, accessible only via a concealed passageway. Inside, a heady design cocktail from Doroth\u00e9e Meilichzon combines a historical-romance look with a bit of updated country-house style.<\/p>\n

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Le Pigalle Paris<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Le<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the oldest story in real estate: the red-light district, down at heel and thus affordable for the creative artists who make up the avant garde of urban renewal, inevitably becomes the up-and-coming neighborhood where the rest of the city comes out to play. So it is with Paris\u2019s Pigalle. And eventually, inevitably \u2014 if we\u2019re lucky \u2014 along comes a hotel like Le Pigalle.<\/p>\n

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Chouchou<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Chouchou\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In common usage, \u201cchouchou\u201d is a French term of endearment \u2014 but in the Parisian hospitality world it\u2019s the name of a charming little boutique hotel right by the Palais Garnier. It\u2019s chic and colorful, with a surplus of personality, and its diminutive name suits it \u2014 in contrast with the self-seriousness of the grand palace hotels, this is a fun and stylish hotel, but also an affordable and accessible one.<\/p>\n

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Maison Souquet<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Maison<\/a><\/p>\n

Paris being Paris, there\u2019s not exactly a dire shortage of sexy hotels. But Maison Souquet, an authentic \u201cpleasure house\u201d in the Pigalle that\u2019s been turned into a five-star hotel by designer Jacques Garcia, makes quite a few of them look like cold showers by comparison. Here, just across from the Moulin Rouge, he\u2019s created a fantasy that\u2019s opulent, mysterious, and just slightly unreal.<\/p>\n

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Brach<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Brach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Interested observers of the boutique-hotel world have witnessed several evolutions of Philippe Starck\u2019s hospitality-design career, and Brach Paris finds him in yet another mood \u2014 this hotel, in Paris\u2019s 16th, makes an unlikely sort of glamour from the materials of the 1970s, to suit the building\u2019s vintage. This means glossy wood paneling, leather, metal, vibrant patterns in earthy colors, and mirrors more or less everywhere.<\/p>\n

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The Hoxton, Paris<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hoxton hotels were, of course, born in the London neighborhood of the same name, so they\u2019ll always have a British accent \u2014 but their first overseas expansion proves that they\u2019re quite flexible in adapting to their surroundings. The Hoxton, Paris is quite an adaptation, commandeering an 18th-century mansion in a particularly hip corner of the 2nd arrondissement and turning it into a chic, modern, and relatively affordable boutique hotel in the Hoxton style.<\/p>\n

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Madame R\u00eave<\/a><\/h2>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

\"Madame<\/a><\/p>\n

The renovation of the landmark Louvre Post Office into a hotel brought out the best of the 19th-century Haussmannian structure\u2019s glamorous side. The lobby level is a postmodern period piece, a fantasy that evokes the romance of travel in a bygone era. Meanwhile the rooms and suites are as contemporary as they come, and decorated with a wealth of mail-themed art. Notably, some face inwards, over the restaurant\u2019s \u201csky garden.\u201d <\/p>\n

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