Shangri-La Paris

Ernest Janty drew it in 1892 in a grand classical manner. After the prince it went to the Suez Canal Company, and then to the state, which installed the national foreign-trade office and held the building until Shangri-La bought it in 2005. The order of 10 February 2009 protects the facades and roofs of the house and the caretaker's pavilion, the street railing, the staircase of honour in full, and the decorated rooms from the ground-floor galleries and billiard room up to the prince's salon on the second. Richard Martinet took the architecture and Pierre-Yves Rochon the interiors, and the hotel opened in 2010. The Palace distinction followed four years later.

A hundred rooms and suites sit above those floors, the Eiffel View ones running 45 square metres and holding the tower in their French windows, while the duplex suites take theirs through windows two storeys high. The marble bathrooms have heated floors and a television set into the mirror.

L'Appartement Prince Bonaparte takes 315 square metres of the second floor, with gilt crown moulding under five-metre ceilings, Versailles parquet running the length of it, a dining room that seats eight and a butler's kitchen behind. Its balconies give onto Avenue d'Iéna and the Guimet Museum. Its salon is listed in its own right.