Hotel Ritz (Paris)
The hotel Ritz Paris is a hotel located at the 15 Place Vendôme with Paris, which was open on June 1st 1898 by César Ritz. The building dates from the beginning of the 18th century, and was in the beginning a private mansion.
History
The frontage is the work of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. The building became a luxury hotel in 1898, and was opened by César Ritz. In company of its chief cook Auguste Escoffier, César Ritz made this hotel a symbol of luxury, excellence, neat service and great kitchen.The hotel becomes the snuffed place of the world good company, with its baptized continuations of luxury of the names of its famous occupants. Among those, Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, the king Edouard VII, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, as well as the dressmaker Coco Chanel, who elected residence in the hotel during more than thirty years.
In 1979, the last Ritz heiress sold the hotel with the Egyptian business man Mohamed Al-Fayed for which he entrusted the responsibility to Omer Acar. It is here that was his/her son Dodi Al-Fayed and Lady Diana Spencer before their accident with the tunnel of the Bridge of Alma.
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