Henri Négresco

Henri Négresco (1868 - 1920) is a director of de luxe hotel and restorer of Rumanian origin , founder historical in 1912 of a famous de luxe hotel: the Hotel Négresco on the Walk of the English to Nice, on the road of the seaside of the Riviera.

Biography

In 1868, it is born with Bucharest in Romania, of a father landlord in the surrounding countryside of Bucharest.

In 1883, 15 years old, it leaves its country to go to work with Paris where it exerts inter alia its talents of Violoniste gypsy. In 1893 it settles with Monte Carlo then becomes Master of directing hotel with London then of establishment.

At the beginning of the 20th century, its decision is made to be installed definitively on the Riviera which drains customers of elite of Europe and America before the First World War. It settles with Monaco where he becomes Master of hotel of the restaurant of Helder; it shows all its talent there to treat and to preserve customers of elite crested, made up in particular of billionaires, kings and princes of the Riviera such of the Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Basil Zaharoff, Isaac Merrit Singer etc He quickly becomes director of the establishment.

Charles Lefranc, trading niçois, the met in relation to Edouard Baudouin, new concessionary of the municipal casino of Nice, whose Architecte Edouard Niemans - one of best the Architect S of the moment - is finishing the refitting. It then takes quickly the direction of the restaurant of this casino.

In 1912 it makes build the Hôtel Négresco on the Promenade of the English to Nice, vis-a-vis the Baie of the Angels on the road of the seaside, to accommodate there its faithful customers of large fortunes of planet. The architect is Edouard Niemans.

At the same time, it repurchases the restaurant of the casino of Enghien-the-Baths where it goes every summer.

In 1914, it is mobilized for the First World War and its establishment is requisitioned and transformed into Hôpital. Large fortunes flee the Riviera.

He dies of a Cancer and ruined in 1920, at the 52 years age.

See too

See also: Road of the seaside (the Maritime Alps)

External bonds

Official site of the hotel Plane Négresco
of Nice

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