Why you should experience New Hotel République in Paris, France.
New Hotel République is a spirited boutique hotel where République's independent character, working-class inheritance, creative experimentation and enduring culture of reinvention converge across two complementary houses on Rue du Grand Prieuré.
Set along Rue du Grand Prieuré near Rue de Malte and just steps from Place de la République, the hotel combines Maison Gabriel at number 25 with Maison Albert at number 22, creating a 62-room property whose two buildings face one another across the same narrow Parisian street. Maison Gabriel contributes 40 rooms alongside the reception and lobby, while Maison Albert adds 22 rooms and the breakfast room, allowing two formerly independent hotels to operate as a single four-star address. The Gabriel side preserves Axel Schoenert's 2009 design intervention, where an Art Deco façade gives way to pale oak, sculpted surfaces, restrained lighting and interiors originally conceived around a pioneering sleep-and-wellness concept. The result is a hotel where two distinct architectural identities and more than fifteen years of Parisian boutique-hotel evolution have been drawn together by the Antoun family without erasing the histories that made either house distinctive.
What you should know about New Hotel République.
New Hotel République is best known for taking its present 62-room form after the Antoun family's New Hotel group acquired the 22-room Albert's Hotel in September 2024 and joined it operationally with the 40-room former Hôtel Gabriel directly across Rue du Grand Prieuré, creating Maison Albert and Maison Gabriel within one four-star property. The acquisition made Albert's the ninth hotel in a New Hotel collection whose origins reach to May 1968, when Georges Antoun transformed his family's guesthouse in Bompard, Marseille, into a hotel, before entering Paris in 1985 with Hôtel Roblin on Place de la Madeleine and gradually building a portfolio now directed with daughters Caroline and Camille Antoun. Maison Gabriel carries a separate design history from 2009, when Axel Schoenert Architectes restructured the former two-star Hôtel Plessis into a four-star design hotel across 2,000 square meters, preserving its Art Deco character while introducing illuminated Hi-Macs surfaces, LED technology and decorative dancer motifs inspired by the 1930s. Schoenert and clients Hôtel Plessis S.A., Jean-Pierre Marois and Jean-Louis Corruble developed the project around a “Detox Hotel” concept centered on regeneration and sleep, with selected guestrooms incorporating the NightCove system, whose programmed light and sound sequences were designed to influence sleeping and waking cycles. The present accommodation inventory preserves those separate lineages through Maison Gabriel categories ranging from 15-square-meter Classic rooms and 16-square-meter Superior rooms to 17-square-meter Luxe rooms, 20-square-meter Prestige rooms and 35-square-meter Premium rooms, while Maison Albert retains its own Classic and Superior categories within the 22-room building acquired in 2024.
Camille Antoun provides the strongest contemporary connection between the two houses and the wider New Hotel collection, having joined the family company in 2015 after graduating from ESAG Penninghen and spending nearly a decade working in image direction at Nina Ricci before assuming responsibility for communications, artistic direction, decoration and renovation projects across the group. Caroline Antoun complements that creative role through hotel management and operations after joining New Hotel in 2008 following business studies and professional experience at Four Seasons Hotel George V, establishing a division of responsibilities that now carries Georges Antoun's 1968 company into its third family generation. Axel Schoenert's surviving Maison Gabriel interiors preserve another chapter of the property through white-oak flooring, white and beige tonal compositions, honey-colored velvet curtains and porthole references inspired by 1920s transatlantic liners, physical remnants of the 2009 concept now absorbed into the larger New Hotel République identity. Together, Georges Antoun, Caroline Antoun, Camille Antoun and Axel Schoenert connect a Marseille family business founded in 1968, a Paris design hotel reimagined in 2009 and a 22-room acquisition completed in 2024 within the present two-house property on Rue du Grand Prieuré.
How to fold New Hotel République into your trip.
New Hotel République works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing performance, industrial creativity and the accumulated material history of eastern Central Paris.
Begin at Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione, where Jacques Hittorff designed the 20-sided Cirque Napoléon for Louis Dejean before Napoleon III inaugurated the building on December 11, 1852, followed seven years later by Jules Léotard performing the world's first flying-trapeze act beneath its dome. Continue to Atelier des Lumières, where brothers Jacques François Alexandre and Hilaire Pierre Plichon established the Chemin-Vert foundry in 1835 to manufacture high-quality cast-iron components for the navy and railway industry before Culturespaces converted the surviving industrial hall into a digital arts center. Conclude at Musée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris, opened on February 25, 1880 inside the sixteenth-century Hôtel Carnavalet and subsequently expanded into Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, where more than 618,000 objects now document Paris from prehistory through the present. The progression moves from nineteenth-century performance through Belleville-era manufacturing into the institutional preservation of Parisian memory, placing New Hotel République within the same eastern Paris geography of inherited spaces repeatedly given new cultural lives.
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