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The hotel on Place Vendôme, life, death, and betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, Tilar J. Mazzeo

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The hotel on Place Vendôme, life, death, and betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris, Tilar J. Mazzeo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-276) and index

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photographsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The hotel on Place Vendôme

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tilar J. Mazzeo

Sub title

life, death, and betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

Summary

"Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendôme, the Hôtel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, politicians, playboys, and princes. By the 1920s the bar became a favorite watering hole for F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers of the Lost Generation, including Ernest Hemingway. In June 1940, when France fell to the Germans, Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich, famously declared that the nation's capital would remain a high-spirited place -or else. Orders from Berlin specified that the Hôtel Ritz would be the only luxury hotel of its kind in occupied Paris...Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace's suites, bars, dining rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and deadly intrigue, as well as stunning acts of defiance and treachery, in which refugees were hidden in secret rooms, a Jewish bartender passed coded messages for the German resistance, and Wehrmacht officers plotted to assassinate the Führer..."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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Life, death, and betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris

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