Minotel Meslay-République
Paris, Hauts-de-Seine

Elegant and charming setting of a listed building. Linger over breakfast in the pleasant vaulted dining-room. Close to the Place des Vosges, the Opéra Bastille and the financial centre (Sentier, Bourse). An exceptional location.

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Paris had always been a destination for traders, students and those on religious pilgrimages, but its 'tourism' in the proper sense of the term began on a large scale only with the appearance of rail travel, namely from state organisation of France's rail network from 1848. One of Paris' first 'mass' attractions drawing international interest were, from 1855, the above-mentioned Expositions Universelles that would bring Paris many new monuments, namely the Eiffel tower from 1889. These, in addition to the Capital's 2nd Empire embellishments, did much to make the city itself the attraction it is today.