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Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo | Language: English | ISBN: B00DB32R18 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5

When France fell to the Germans in June 1940, the legendary Hôtel Ritz on the Place Vendôme—an icon of Paris frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, playboys, and princes—was the only luxury hotel of its kind allowed in the occupied city by order of Adolf Hitler.

Tilar J. Mazzeo traces the history of this cultural landmark from its opening in fin de siècle Paris. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime, when the Hôtel was simultaneously headquarters to the highest-ranking German officers, such as Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring, and home to exclusive patrons, including Coco Chanel. 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.

Rich in detail, illustrated with black-and-white photos, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is a remarkable look at this extraordinary crucible where the future of post-war France—and all of post-war Europe—was transformed. 

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• File Size: 990 KB
• Print Length: 323 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0061791083
• Publisher: Harper (March 11, 2014)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00DB32R18
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An epic human drama that sweeps across the pages of history with might, misfortune and triumph, this is the story of "The Hotel on Place Vendome". The author Tilar J. Mazzio who wrote the endlessly fascinating, "The Secret of Chanel No.5" has created in this book about The Ritz Hotel in Paris a real page turner of a read. Sharply detailed, witty, brave, funny and tragic, it is a brilliant accomplishment.

Everyone goes to the Ritz..

Like in the great World War II film, "Casablanca" everybody who is anybody in this true story goes to The Ritz. What happened in real life between the covers of this book surpasses anything of reel life that every came out of Hollywood in the golden age. Over the course of the story from the opening of the grand hotel to the end of the war a parade of unforgettable characters from Marcel Proust to Marlene Dietrich and everyone in between shows up to play out the most extraordinary drama. The hotel staff, the permanent guests, the horizontal collaborators, the resistors, the conquerors, the liberators, the beautiful and the dammed, they are all here in these dazzling unforgettable pages.

The book opens with a cast of characters much like an old classic film from the thirties. Each is presented in a small capsule of words. Just enough is revealed to make the reader hungry for the story to begin. And begin it does with a cinematic sweep.

"That was the day the Germans marched into Paris... I remember every detail, the Germans wore grey, you wore blue."

With the arrival of the German Army and under Hitler's order that "Paris remain happy and gay or else" the hotel stays open. The fear was that if they did not keep it going during the occupation it might be lost forever to its owners, the Ritz family.

"Luxury stains everyone it touches."
~ Charles Ritz

Those opening lines to Tilar J. Mazzeo's The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris are somewhat prophetic as readers of this 320 page offering will quickly find. It's a fascinating historical topic for those into European political and geographic times past, but very soon the book lives up to its subtitle.

After the Prologue sets the pace, the author begins with a look at the H?tel Ritz in 1940, and then takes us back to 1898 during the Golden Age, the Belle Époque for Paris. Here we are introduced to César Ritz, the founder of the hotel that bears his family name, along with a number of other characters who were socially and politically prominent in that time. The book gets off to a somewhat rollicking start, with more focus on the celebrities and public figures than on the hotel itself, which opened in 1898 in the middle of the Dreyfus Affair.

Author Mazzeo next transports us to the summer of 1917, when the Germans were bombing Paris during the First World War. The city was saved, and along with it the H?tel Ritz, and the city's hedonistic life survived as we see in the pages. There is the Marquise Luisa Casati, who "wore a gold-painted snake, drugged into submission, around her neck as a living necklace," along with descriptions of her naked, gilded footmen and "her lover, the promiscuous Italian poet Gabrielle D'Annunzio." The pages here sometimes read more as a scandal sheet than as a history of the hotel and its environs.

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