If you’d like to live cheaper (or if the hotels on Rue des Ecoles are packed), then keep walking up the Boulevard St. Michel for two more blocks until you hit the Rue Souffiot, and again turn left. 100 yards ahead stands the Pantheon, a shrine to France’s most illustrious public figures (entombed here are Voltaire, Rousseau, Zola, Victor Hugo, among others). At the right of the Pantheon are two long-established budget hotels, the Hotel des Grands Hommes, 17 Place du Pantheon, and the Hotel du Pantheon, 19 Place du PantMon, both with plenty of singles for less.
The Grands Hommes’ location and view remain spectacular. But the Pantheon is quite suitable, and a third hotel-the University Hotel, at 160 Rue St. Jacques, just a few feet from the Rue Souffiot -is not only on a par with the Pantheon, but offers twin-bedded rooms. All three hotels are mainly recommended for young tourists, who will be excited by the flavor of this central university quarter.
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