If you’d like to stay at a French champagne address on a biere address, then consider Hotel Quai Voltaire just across the Seine from the Louve art museum.

It’s on the same block as the new apartment of former French president Jacques Chirac, the building where French philosopher Voltaire died, and tucked in among the shops of the Carre’ Rive Gauche selling high-end antiques and art.

The hotel has hosted luminaries such as Baudelaire, Wagner and Sibelius, but its glory days are behind it. The lobby is painted hospital green, hallway paint has big gaps, and room decor was roses on blue-green paper with red wall-to-wall carpeting. The only "luxury" in the room was a wall-mounted telephone. No A/C or shower, aside from a hand-held spray. 

But the room was clean, the mattress firm, and the location convenient to Metro and many Paris attractions.