Pigalle has cleaned up its act in recent years, but the former red-light district is still possessed of a bohemian and quintessentially Parisian spirit. Hôtel Rochechouart, with its Art Deco façade, busy street-level brasserie, and garret-like guest rooms, embodies the neighborhood’s retro charm. The original hotel opened nearly a century ago, and many of its features remain, including the antique elevator, crown molding, and grand marble staircase.

Montmartre holds a special place in the romantic imagination of many visitors to Paris, and Monsieur Aristide leans into the romance, embracing the neighborhood’s bohemian charm. Which isn’t to say this boutique hotel isn’t innovative on its own terms. The 19th-century building was a longtime fixture on the local hotel scene — the wood-paneled reception desk, with its quaint rows of key hooks, is original, as is the vintage cocktail bar.

The name may require some explaining: in French a hôtel particulier is not necessarily a lodging-for-hire, but simply a free-standing townhouse, one surrounded by a garden courtyard rather than adjoining the house next door. So it’s a kind of understated boast, perhaps, in addition to being an economical description of the place; the key to the appeal of the Hôtel Particulier Montmartre is that it’s little more than a private house.

Themed hotels don’t come much more straightforwardly named than HOY Paris - Yoga Hotel. It’s the fusion of the twin passions of Charlotte Gomez de Orozco, hospitality school graduate and certified yoga teacher, and features a vegan restaurant by the team behind London’s Plant Academy, a Japanese florist, interior design that follows Feng Shui principles, and a wellness center that goes beyond massage and beauty treatments.

It’s the oldest story in real estate: the red-light district, down at heel and thus affordable for the creative artists who make up the avant garde of urban renewal, inevitably becomes the up-and-coming neighborhood where the rest of the city comes out to play. So it is with Paris’s Pigalle. And eventually, inevitably — if we’re lucky — along comes a hotel like Le Pigalle.

“Bed & Beverage” is the concept, and it’s a relevant one for Pigalle, a center of Parisian nightlife. Globetrotting cocktail experts teamed with Dorothée Meilichzon to create a stylish cocktail and wine bar with 37 bohemian rooms. Don’t expect palace treatment — this is the Grand Pigalle Hotel, not the Pigalle Grand Hotel — but do expect personality, a vibrant environment, and a memorable stay with a mile-long cocktail list and over 200 Italian wines.

If you’ve been around the block, you’ll be wary of a love-themed hotel in Paris. But Hotel Amour is the real thing, the Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean Rhys, with glamour, seediness, bars, and brothels. Located in Pigalle, designed by a graffiti artist turned nightclub magnate, it’s modeled on Japan’s “love hotel” concept. Twenty unique rooms mix bohemian Paris with a risqué nightclub vibe. The hip bar and restaurant make it perfect for a lively aperitif.

Paris being Paris, there’s no shortage of sexy hotels. But Maison Souquet, a “pleasure house” turned five-star by Jacques Garcia, makes many look dull. Across from Moulin Rouge, it’s opulent, mysterious, and unreal — perfect for escaping the mundane. Rooms named after 19th-century courtesans are dark, romantic, and plush. The bar feels like a reading room, and a private spa completes this decadent, thrill-seeking haven.

Soho House has a knack for finding buildings with character, but they’ve outdone themselves with Soho House Paris. This 19th-century apartment building in Pigalle was once inhabited by the family of Jean Cocteau. Its style resembles an English country house with an urban Parisian edge, plus inspiration from Cocteau’s Cap Ferrat villa and Art Deco. Guests have access to fitness, steam room, sauna, art-filled lounges, and a Moulin Rouge–style Cabaret Room.

Near the Place de Clichy in Paris’s 9th arrondissement, close to the nightlife hotspot that is the Quartier Pigalle, is one of the capital’s most stylish and most unique boutique hotels. Hotel Le Ballu is inspired by the fictional Balkan country of Syldavia, from the Tintin comics; if the reference is lost on you, imagine a whimsical cocktail of mid-century design with a decidedly Eastern accent.

The vibrant, youthful 25hours hotels have been a sensation in the German-speaking world, and have steadily expanded to the west — but it’s only now, with the advent of the 25hours Hotel Terminus Nord Paris, that they’ve finally crossed the border into France. The Augsburg-based design agency, Dreimeta, engaged Visto Images, a Parisian firm, to collaborate on the hotel’s visual identity, tailoring it to its location in the 10th Arrondissement just across from the Gare du Nord.