This excellent insiders bilingual guide to Paris’ most luxurious and branché hotel bars is packed with hidden treasures and perfect for organizing a special rendezvous when you really want to impress. Over fifty mythic hotels listed ranging from the old world elegance of the Bar V at the Hotel Four Seasons George V to the ultra-contemporary trendy Bar Lounge du Murano near Republique to the English style Bar at the Hotel San Régis with its vintage furniture, fire place and winter garden, this is an opportunity (for only 14 Euros) to see how the other half relaxes. ((Parigramme, Gérard Bonos and Marie-Hélène Delettre; photographs: Sylvain Ageorges)