Rive Gauche Renaissance: Left Bank Paris

A gorgeously renovated hotel ushers in a new era for Paris’s Left Bank. Local Mara Hoberman gives the inside scoop.

When the Hôtel Lutetia reopened in 2018 on Paris’s Left Bank, following a painstaking renovation and restoration that kept it shuttered for more than four years, locals were delighted to see the beloved institution returned to its original splendor. Since 1910, the property has been a neighborhood mainstay on the Rive Gauche and a haunt for artists and intellectuals, including Ern...