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Paris’s sumptuous Maison Proust hotel

December 24, 2024
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There are obvious complexities in dedicating a pleasure palace to the memory of Marcel Proust, a man who spent much of his life as a hypochondriac, an invalid and a recluse. There are added complexities in celebrating a writer whose lengthy work most visitors may not have dared to read. 

But Maison Proust, a sumptuous hotel in Paris’s Marais district, does not let such things get in its way. It leans straight into Proust nostalgia. It aims to evoke the glories of the Belle Époque — the salons and the soirées — with the help of some fine art from the era. There are nods to Proust’s links with the Impressionists and the writers John Ruskin and Anna, Comtesse de Noailles. 

The hotel’s library © Benjamin Rosemberg

When you walk in, you are faced with a quote written into the wood panelling: an extract from volume two of À la recherche du temps perdu, in which the narrator Marcel’s much-desired Albertine promises to spend the night in his hotel room. She offers him the chance to “sit by my bed and watch me eat and afterwards we will play at anything you choose”. Well, quite. The staff are on hand with other crumbs of Proust as required.

The hotel’s creators, Sylviane Sanz and Yoni Aïdan, also run the five-star Maison Souquet in Montmartre and the four-star Maison Athénée near the Opéra Garnier. They say that their designs favour the sensual over the ostentatious. At Maison Proust, a bar and restaurant area with an intriguingly dark decor stretches out on the ground floor. A few dozen luxuriant armchairs yearn for conversation. There is just room to tuck in a small library, its round ceiling hand-painted with sea monsters. 

The hotel pool, surrounded by columns covered with black-and-white tiles and mosaics
Guests can have the hotel pool to themselves for an hour a day © Benjamin Rosemberg

The jewels in the crown, however, are downstairs in the basement: a swimming pool and sauna, fenced by columns and mosaics, and inspired, we’re told, by the “Orientalism of Aunt Léonie’s salons, where Marcel Proust spent part of his childhood”. 

All guests can have the 10-metre pool and hammam to themselves for an hour a day. This has many advantages, not least for those travellers who have committed the age-old sin of forgetting their swimming costume (although beware the security camera). There are also three rooms for spa treatments. 

The double bed in the Hélène Standish Deluxe Room, with a portrait of the French aristocrat Hélène Standish on a deep-red flock wallpaper wall
The Hélène Standish Deluxe Room, named after the French aristocrat who inspired Proust’s Duchesse de Guermantes © Benjamin Rosemberg

Upstairs, as in many old Parisian buildings, the rooms have to be rather less wide than a Proust novel. The 23 bedrooms and suites range from 20 to 100 square metres. But they make the most of the space with bold wallpaper and with paintings by artists including Leonardo Gasser, Paul-Albert Laurens and Proust’s friend Madeleine Lemaire.

From my suite on the fifth floor, I could see the top of the Eiffel Tower, as well as, in true Parisian style, the contents of the building opposite. The Rue de Picardie outside is quiet; the Place de la République and the old Jewish quarter are both short walks away. 

Maison Proust’s orange and foam ‘La Madeleine’ cocktail
Don’t forget to try Maison Proust’s ‘La Madeleine’ cocktail © Benjamin Rosemberg

Proust is remembered for his idea of involuntary memory: an experience, like madeleine cakes dipped in tea, which will thrust you back to a precious moment. The bar at Maison Proust offers cocktails such as “La Madeleine”, including vodka and Amaretto, and “Le Temps Retrouvé”, designed by the bartender Colin Field, formerly of the Ritz Paris. The latter includes champagne, black truffle and a shot of Armagnac Château Laubade from 1922, the year of Proust’s death. Too many of these, and presumably the result won’t be involuntary memory but an involuntary lack of memory. Given the experience on offer at Maison Proust, that would be a shame.

At a glance

  • Rooms and suites: 11 rooms, 12 suites

  • Good for: Cosy luxury. A private swim

  • Not so good for: Families. Your wallet

  • FYI: “Le Temps Retrouvé” cocktail will set you back an eye-watering €500

  • Rates: Doubles from €1,000 (early January)

  • Address: 26 Rue de Picardie, 75003 Paris

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Henry Mance stayed as a guest of Maison Proust

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