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                <title>Hotel de Blois</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[<br><br>Pretty good deal for Paris, and the location is also good. Just a couple of minutes from the center of the lively Montparnasse district, but the hotel is in a quiet little street. It’s a charming little boutique hotel run by a friendly bunch. Excellent value.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Budget hotel tip in Paris</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[In a good location, in the Latin Quarter near Rue Mouffetard, Grand Hotel Jeanne D'Arc is a great option. It is pretty simple, but rooms are well kept and clean, perfectly adequate if you don't want something fancy. We've spent most of our time out roaming the city, but it was always good to come back to our room and unwind.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Shakespeare &amp; Co.</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[English bookshop in the heart of the latin quarter, Shakespeare &amp; Co. is an "icontournable" for English speakers. Having lived in Paris for over a year, I spent many hours in the bookshop, reviving my love for English and American novels. Like a small cave with walls built with unending stacks of books, it has a spirit of its own. Photographs of great writers, and literary classics surround a well in the centre of the shop's ground floor. If you miss speaking English, S. &amp; Co. customers are mainly English and American tourists, most of them too amazed by the beauty and wealth of the place to buy anything. You can find almost any book you've dreamt to read, and even write a few lines about the place, on the typewriter on the first floor, also surrounded by books of all sorts. Guarded by a black cat, the place also has a children's book section, as well as German, Russian, and some French literature, stuffed under the staircase. Many photographs recall the visit of some famous writers; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, among others. It is a passionate trip through time and literature. I've spent many rainy Sunday afternoons, just reading through this goldmine of knowledge and great minds. It's not too expensive, so you can come back from Paris with more English books than mini Eiffel Towers!<br>Another amusing fact, in the time I was there: one of the employees looked somewhat strangely like the great William himself!]]></description>
                
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