Hotel The Peninsula Paris

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The Hotel The Peninsula

The Hotel The Peninsula Paris is a Parisian five-star hotel in the 16th arrondissement . The former Hotel Majestic reopened in August 2014.

history

Captured German officers in the hotel after the liberation of Paris in August 1944

In 1864 the Russian collector Alexander Basilewski built a building on today's Avenue Kléber . In 1868 the overthrown Spanish Queen Isabella II fled to Paris and used the building. In 1906 the building was demolished and reopened as the Hotel Majestic in 1908. In 1928 George Gershwin composed his piece An American in Paris here . In 1940, after the campaign in the west, the German occupiers came and set up the headquarters of the French military commander here. From 1942 to 1944 this was Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, who was executed in 1944 on the orders of Adolf Hitler . In 1946 the building was used as the headquarters of the newly founded UNESCO until it built a new building in 1958. The building was then converted into a conference center for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the architect Jacques Carlu . In 1973, Henry Kissinger signed the Paris Peace Treaty here , which ended the Vietnam War .

present

In 2008 the house came into private hands and was converted back into a luxury hotel . The work took four and a half years and cost around 450 million euros; there were u. a. Three basement floors created for garage and spa . The hotel has a rooftop restaurant with a 360-degree view over Paris, the Oiseau Blanc . The house has 200 rooms and employs 530 people. The operator is the small Asian chain Peninsula Hotels . The house is close to the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe .

literature

  • Gaël Eismann: Hôtel Majestic: Ordre et sécurité en France occupée (1940-1944). Tallandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2847346602 .
  • Walter Bargatzky: Hotel Majestic: A German in occupied France. Foreword by Peter Scholl-Latour , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-451-08388-4 (autobiography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Finn-Olaf Jones: The Peninsula Hotel Takes Paris. wsj.com, June 18, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014
  2. ↑ Barbara Liepert: Palace of the République. faz.net, September 7, 2014, accessed September 7, 2014
  3. ^ "The Peninsula" ( Memento from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Information on the website of the Paris Tourist Office (German)
  4. ^ John O'Ceallaigh: The Peninsula Paris opens. telegraph.co.uk, August 1, 2014, accessed September 6, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 15.6 "  N , 2 ° 17 ′ 35.9"  E