Hôtel Chopin

46, Passage Jouffroy, Paris

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A little hidden gem

Paris

Hôtel Chopin

This charming and historic hotel takes you all the way back to the era of a romanticized Paris. Situated in the very heart of the 9th arrondissement in the Jouffrey Passageway, it offers 35 rooms that embrace you with elegant simplicity and comfort. In many of it’s rooms you can gaze through the windows to the stunning views of the Paris rooftops. It gives you much more than an evenings respite. It offers you a glimspe back to the Paris of the mid 1800’s.

Hotel Chopin dates all the way back to the opening of the covered Jouffrey Passage in 1846. The hotels facade, as well as the rest of the Jouffrey Passage, is classified as a historical monument. The Passage also houses the famed Grévin Wax Museum and Theatre. Hôtel Chopin’s doors have never been closed since opening day in 1846. There has been someone at the reception desk 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year since that date. You will not find a lock on the entry doors, only a simple unhooked latch.

It is one of the oldest hotels in Paris. It was originally named “Family Hotel”, and then renamed “Hôtel Chopin” in 1970, as a tribute to Frédérik Chopin, the famous composer and pianist. Chopin lived in this district, where he roamed the Jouffrey Passage as he went from his apartment close by to the Pleyel’s pianos demonstration room and to and from the 9th arrondissement. This district is where Chopin had his first solo Paris debut at the Salle Pleyel. He performed Piano Concerto N.1, drawing thunderous applause and universal praise. It is also rumored that Chopin had frequent rendezvous with Georges Sand at the Hôtel Chopin over their decade long relationship which ended 2 years before his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 39.

This little hotel will bring you back to the mid 19th century, a time in Paris where Frédérik Chopin, George Sands, Franz Liszt, Eugene Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Balzac, et al. were composing and writing and painting and creating. It was a time of the critical thinkers. It was a time of fading idealism and blossoming romanticism and the “new” Bohemian social type. It was a Paris of the arts, of the bourgeoisie, of rogue thinkers, shameful sophistication, and aristocratic saloons that allowed women to be heard and musicians to be courted. It was the Paris of a growing discontented working class, memorialized in the works of Victor Hugo. This was also time when Paris was considered by many, the crown jewel of European culture.

Go and experience the magic of this extraordinary little hotel in the Jouffrey Passage

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