Since it opened in 1835 in its stellar location facing the Tuileries Gardens, Le Meurice has regularly made history: hosting Queen Victoria and Salvador Dali among many others, and becoming the first hotel in Paris to have telephones and individual bathrooms for guests.

A classically Parisian hôtel particulier set back from a leafy boulevard, this venture belongs to the Experimental Group, which first launched in Paris as a club dedicated to craft cocktails.

From the on-trend location in the 11th arrondissement to the wall of plants as you enter, La Nouvelle République is a hotel with its finger on the Parisian pulse. Thankfully, though, the prices have stayed proportionate.

Luxury hotels in Paris don’t get much more decadent than this, so hold your breath and reach deep into your wallet if you want to book into one of the rooms and suites here. You’ll be almost neighbours with the president of France.

The gilded lettering on the vintage shopfront reads “Boulangerie”, but something is altered inside. This former bakery in the close-set streets of the Marais is now a boutique hotel comprising 16 rooms and one suite, with fashion designer Christian Lacroix let loose on each.

Just off the long, sloping Rue de Belleville, heartland of working-class Paris in Édith Piaf’s day and also the city’s main Chinatown, Hôtel Scarlett is a three-star choice with plenty of design flair.

On a discreet backstreet between the Louvre and Place Vendôme, Le Roch (pronounced “rock”) is among the most desirable of Parisian boutique hotels.

Looking for a hotel with that perfect view of the Eiffel Tower? This Left Bank hotel occupies the sharp angle between two avenues, and is pointed like an arrowhead at the city’s icon, meaning that all rooms get to see the greater part of “la dame de fer”, the French capital’s very own iron lady.

“Dépaysant” is a fine French word, describing something that takes you out of your country and transports you to another. Though the Monte Cristo lies deep in the Left Bank, the stylishly eclectic room decor might make you feel like you’re in 1930s Shanghai.

The name painted in fin-de-siècle letters on a red shopfront, on a cobbled street in Montmartre — will this be a pastiche of bohemian Paris? Well, this small hotel has been in business since 1901 and in the current family since 1966.