Hotel La Louisiane has always been frequented by artists and writers. The Franco-Egyptian author Albert Cossery, for example, lived for 60 years at the Hotel La Louisiane. Albert Cossery, nicknamed the Voltaire of the Nile, free thinker, anarchist. Listen to this archive, he is with his friend, singer Georges Moustaki.
Since the 1930s, the famous guests of the Hotel La Louisiane have crossed paths, successively, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Albert Camus, Miles Davis, Boris Vian, Anne Marie Cazalis, and Juliette Gréco who occupies room 10.
Then there will be other clients, Tarantino, Jim Morrison, Bertrand Tavernier will shoot a feature film. There are hotels like that in Paris, historic, romantic, mythical, and the legend has a hard time at the Hotel La Louisiane, Etienne Daho has done the 400 blows there and more, he pays homage to the establishment in his song “hotel of the infidels”.
The price displayed for a room at the Hotel de la Louisiane on the internet on a booking site is 11,000 euros per night. But no doubt it is a dadaist or surrealist joke, rather count between 120 and 150 euros per room. La Louisiane, in the heart of Saint Germain des Près, 60, rue de Seine, a hotel rich in books, lovers, friends, ghosts, dreams and wines. Here, everything that was continues to exist, outside the present time.