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The hotel on Place Vendôme : life, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris

Call Number

  • 647.94 M477 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, [2014]

Physical Description

xxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, [this book examines the] history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz, a ... tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance"--Amazon.com.

Taking readers behind the doors of Paris's Hotel Ritz during the Nazi occupation of World War II, this extraordinary chronicle reveals a hotbed of illicit affairs, deadly intrigues, courageous acts of defiance and treachery and the people and events that made this opulent cultural landmark legendary.

Contents

  • The Hôtel Ritz, the mirror of Paris
  • This Switzerland in Paris : June 1940
  • All the talk of Paris : June 1, 1898
  • Dogfight above the Place Vendôme : July 27, 1917
  • Diamonds as big as the Ritz : September 1, 1940
  • The Americans drifting to Paris : 1944
  • The French actress and her Nazi lover
  • The Jewish bartender and the German Resistance
  • The American wife and the Swiss director
  • The German general and the fate of Paris
  • The press corps and the race to Paris
  • Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz liberated
  • Those dame reporters : August 26, 1944
  • The last trains from Paris
  • Coco's war and other dirty linen
  • The blond bombshell and the nuclear scientists
  • From Berlin with love and last battles in Paris : 1945
  • Waning powers in Paris : June 1951
  • The war's long shadow : May 29, 1969.

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