Beautifully shady, the new gardens at the 5-star Hôtel Alfred Sommier offer a real haven of peacefuless at the heart of the 8th arrondissement. This discreet hotel occupying a mansion owned by an upper middle-class Parisian family still belongs to the descendants of Alfred Sommier, a great French industrialist in the 18th century. Hôtel Alfred Sommier, 20 rue de l’Arcade, Paris 8 (01 88 22 33 44).
