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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

by Tilar J. Mazzeo

A Paris landmark through upheaval

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A Paris landmark through upheaval

Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the Ritz from its 1898 opening into the modern era, placing the hotel’s history within the changing life of Paris. The account gives particular attention to the occupation: the Ritz operated as a base for senior German officers while also housing wealthy guests, including spies. That overlap makes the hotel a lens on the entanglement of luxury, power, and wartime life in occupied Paris. The book combines the history of a celebrated establishment with the broader political and social tensions surrounding it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of Paris and France
  • Those drawn to accounts of hotels as cultural and political landmarks
  • Readers exploring civilian and elite life in occupied Paris

Themes

Parisian cultural historyThe Ritz as a landmark institutionGerman occupation of ParisLuxury, power, and espionage

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Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendaome, the Haotel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risquae flappers, politicians, playboys, and princes. In June 1940, when France fell to the Germans, orders from Berlin specified that the Haotel Ritz would be the only luxury hotel of its kind in occupied Paris. Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin-de-siaecle Paris to the modern era. The Haotel on Place Vendaome chronicles life at the Ritz during wartime, when the hotel simultaneously served as headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarschall Hermann Georing, and home to wealthy patrons (and the spies among them) who stayed on in Paris."
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