Considering the Hotel Wallace in Paris?
A VT member wrote the following comment about visiting Paris:
Ile de France - History by Kuznetsov_Sergey
The Parisian region is named Ile-de-France. In French "ile" means "island", but in this case it is necessary to translate from latin "illeum" - "the heart, the center". And it is True, Paris is not only the heart of France, but, in my opinion, also it is the heart of Europe.