The Hôtel Ritz is a hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning or climate control located at 15 Place Vendôme, in the heart of Paris Paris (pronounced /ˈpærɪs/ in English; [paʁi] in French) is the capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (also known as the "Paris Region"; French: Région parisienne). The city of Paris, within its limits largely unchanged since, France France ( /ˈfræns/ or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean. It is one of the most prestigious and luxurious hotels in the world and is one of the seven recognized Parisian Parisian was a moderate to upscale U.S. chain of department stores headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama palace hotels. Established in 1898 Year 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar), it is the oldest Ritz Hotel in the world.

History

The building was constructed in the early part of the 18th century as a private dwelling. In 1854 it was acquired by the Péreire brothers who made it the head office of their Crédit Mobilier financial institution.

The façade was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart Jules Hardouin-Mansart was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV. Mansart, as he is generally known, was one of the most important European architects of the seventeenth century. Converted to a luxury hotel by César Ritz, it opened on June 1 June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 213 days remaining until the end of the year, 1898 Year 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). Together with the culinary talents of minority partner Auguste Escoffier Georges Auguste Escoffier was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a near-legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine. Much of Escoffier's technique was based on that of Antoine Carê, Ritz made the hotel synonymous with opulence, service, and fine dining.

The Hôtel Ritz consists of the Vendôme and the Cambon buildings with rooms facing Place Vendôme and on the opposite side, rooms overlooking its famous garden. The hotel became a favorite of many of the world's wealthiest people, with luxurious suites named for some of its notable patrons from the past. These include Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, for whom a bar in the hotel was named, and F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, including The, Marcel Proust, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910. He was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which was renamed the House of Windsor by his son, George V, Iranian leader Reza Shah, Rudolph Valentino Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover", he was one of the most popular stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars from the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His untimely death at age 31 caused mass, Charlie Chaplin Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedic actor and filmmaker. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid "Classical Hollywood" era of American cinema, Greta Garbo Greta Garbo was a Swedish actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John CBE is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist, plus couturier Coco Chanel Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. Her extraordinary influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME who made the Ritz her home for more than thirty years.

The Ritz Today

The Hôtel Ritz Paris currently offers 161 rooms, one restaurant, and two bars. The rooms start at € The euro is the official currency of 16 of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). The states, known collectively as the Eurozone, are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The currency is also used in a further five European730 a night^[1]. Suites start at €3,000^[2] and can go up to €12,000 a night for the most prestigious ones (Suite Impériale)^[3]. The hotel's restaurant, L'Espadon, was awarded a star by the 2007 edition of the influential Michelin Red Guide The Michelin Guide is a series of annual guide books published by Michelin for over a dozen countries. The term refers by default to the Michelin Red Guide, the oldest and best-known European hotel and restaurant guide, which awards the Michelin stars. Michelin also publishes Green Guides for travel and tourism, as well as several newer.

The hotel in fiction

• Noel Coward Born in Teddington, England , Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards, and's play Semi-Monde takes place in the Paris Ritz. The play follows the extravagant, promiscuous, and ultimately cyclical life of a fictional Paris elite between 1924 and 1926.

• In Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.[citation needed]'s 1957 comedy Love in the Afternoon, Audrey Hepburn Born in Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Holland during the Second World War . She studied ballet in Arnhem and then moved to London in 1948, where she studied drama and worked as a photographer's model. She appeared in a handful of European films before initiates her romance with Gary Cooper Frank James “Gary” Cooper was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made. His career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and comprised in his suite in the hotel.

• The hotel was featured in the 1966 movie How to Steal a Million, with a romantic scene between Audrey Hepburn Born in Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Holland during the Second World War . She studied ballet in Arnhem and then moved to London in 1948, where she studied drama and worked as a photographer's model. She appeared in a handful of European films before and Peter O'Toole Peter Seamus O'Toole is an actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. He went on to become one of the most honored film and stage actors of all-time. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He in front.

• In the Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed "moralist." Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters novel Glamorama, a group of supermodels turned terrorists Terrorism is a policy or ideology of violence intended to intimidate or cause terror for the purpose of "exerting pressure on decision making by state bodies." The term "terror" is largely used to indicate clandestine, low-intensity violence that targets civilians and generates public fear. Thus "terror" is distinct plant a home-made bomb in the Hôtel Ritz Paris, resulting in the hotel's collapse.

• In The Man Who Lived At The Ritz, Phillip Weber and Hermann Göring, Joss Ackland Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE , known as Joss Ackland, is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. He has appeared extensively on television, notably as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands (1985), are staying at the hotel during WWII.

• In The Da Vinci Code The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective fiction novel written by American author Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon as he investigates a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ of Nazareth having been married to and fathering a child, the protagonist, Robert Langdon, stays at the hotel while in Paris.

• In Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada, Andrea Sachs and Miranda Priestly stay at the hotel while in Paris.

• In the Indian movie "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom", Abhishek Bachchan meets his fictional love Lara Dutta at Hotel Ritz

Trivia

• Pamela Churchill Harriman, who was appointed United States Ambassador to France by President Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were younger when entering office. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, he is known as the in 1993, died in Hôtel Ritz Paris while taking her customary morning swim in the pool. Two other politicians have died at the Ritz Paris: Eleftherios Venizelos Eleftherios Venizelos (Mournies Chania, 23 August 1864 - Paris, 18 March 1936) was an eminent Greek revolutionary, a prominent and illustrious statesman as well as a charismatic leader in the early 20th century. Elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece and served from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1932. Venizelos had such profound and Frederic Salusbury.
• Forbes Magazine Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and Business Week. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans and its has called Colin P. Field, head barman of the hotel's Hemingway Bar, "The World's Greatest Bartender".[1]
• It is said that Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, as a war reporter with the US Army, came to the Hôtel Ritz during the liberation of Paris Paris (pronounced /ˈpærɪs/ in English; [paʁi] in French) is the capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region (also known as the "Paris Region"; French: Région parisienne). The city of Paris, within its limits largely unchanged since in 1944, shooting into the air with a pistol. He later bragged that he had personally liberated the hotel.

References

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See also

• Ritz-Carlton 'Ritz-Carlton' is a brand of luxury hotel and resort with 70 properties that are located in major cities and exclusive resort destinations of 23 countries worldwide. The Ritz-Carlton brand is managed by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marriott International. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has currently 32,000 employees. The hotel chain
• Ritz Hotel The Ritz Hotel London is a 133-room hotel located in Piccadilly and overlooking Green Park in London London, opened 8 years after the Paris one
• Ritz (disambiguation)

External links

• Hotel website
• Interview with Colin Field, leading mixologist and head barman of the Ritz's Hemingway Bar

Coordinates A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates, using mainly a spherical coordinate system: 48°52′04″N 2°19′43″E / 48.86778°N 2.32861°E

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