The Hotel On Place Vendome
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The Hotel On Place Vend Me
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Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-03-18
The Hotel On Place Vend Me written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with History categories.
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.
Hotel Ritz
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Author :
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
Hotel Ritz written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Hotels categories.
Hotel Vendome
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Author : Danielle Steel
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Hotel Vendome written by Danielle Steel and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Fiction categories.
The Sunday Times Bestseller When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe. Renowned for its unparalleled service, the Hotel Vendôme soon becomes the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous, as well as a perfect home for Hugues’ beautiful wife and their young daughter. But when his wife tires of his obsession for the hotel, she walks out on him for a notorious rock star, leaving Hugues a single parent to four-year-old Heloise. Heloise and her family live happily amid a colourful, exciting and sometimes mysterious milieu of celebrities, socialites, politicians, world travellers and hotel employees – and their inevitable intrigues. As unexpected challenges arise, the hotel is the centre of their world. And when Heloise grows us, she longs to follow in her father’s footsteps and one day run the Hotel Vendôme. The lessons she learned at his side will carry her through it all, in a story no reader will forget.
Paris Deluxe
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Author : Alexis Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date : 1997
Paris Deluxe written by Alexis Gregory and has been published by Rizzoli International Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In text and photographs, Paris Deluxe traces the history of the Place Vendome, from the square's beginnings as a high-risk property speculation, to its life in the twentieth century as Paris's center of fashion, jewelry, high finance, and art, a playground for international society that converges at the Paris Ritz, undoubtedly still the most elegant, expensive, and comfortable hotel in the world. The cast of extraordinary personalities who have left their marks on the square covers the spectrum from fashion and jewelry - names like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Frederic Worth, Cartier, Boucheron - to financiers J. P. Morgan and John Law, and every prominent name in art and high society - Edward, Prince of Wales, the Vanderbilts, Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Lillie Langtry, Rene Lalique and the Crozats, whose art collection was bought by Diderot for Catherine the Great.
Mistress Of The Ritz
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Author : Melanie Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Mistress Of The Ritz written by Melanie Benjamin and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Fiction categories.
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. “A compelling portrait of a marriage and a nation at war from within.”—Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk through its famous doors to be welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband, Claude, the hotel’s director. The Auzellos are the mistress and master of the Ritz, allowing the glamour and glitz to take their minds off their troubled marriage, and off the secrets that they keep from their guests—and each other. Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters at the Ritz. Suddenly, with the likes of Hermann Goëring moving into suites once occupied by royalty, Blanche and Claude must navigate a terrifying new reality. One that entails even more secrets and lies. One that may destroy the tempestuous marriage between this beautiful, reckless American and her very proper Frenchman. For in order to survive—and strike a blow against their Nazi “guests”—Blanche and Claude must spin a web of deceit that ensnares everything and everyone they cherish. But one secret is shared between Blanche and Claude alone—the secret that, in the end, threatens to imperil both of their lives, and to bring down the legendary Ritz itself. Based on true events, Mistress of the Ritz is a taut tale of suspense wrapped up in a love story for the ages, the inspiring story of a woman and a man who discover the best in each other amid the turbulence of war. Praise for Mistress of the Ritz “No one writes of the complexities of women’s lives and loves like Melanie Benjamin. In Mistress of the Ritz, Benjamin brings wartime Paris brilliantly to life. . . . Intense, illuminating, and ultimately inspiring!”—Elizabeth Letts, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Dorothy
Class Acts
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Author : Rachel Sherman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007
Class Acts written by Rachel Sherman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
"Sherman's insightful ethnography sheds light on the interactional dimension of symbolic boundaries and class relations as they are lived by luxury hotel clients and the workers who serve them. We learn how both groups perform class through emotion work and deepen our understanding of the role played by "niceness" in constituting equality and reversing hierarchies. As such, Class Acts is a signal contribution to a growing literature on the place of the self concept in class boundaries. It will gain a significant place in a body of work that broadens our understanding of class by moving beyond structural determinants and taking into consideration the performative, emotional, cognitive, and expressive dimensions of inequality."--Michele Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration "Eye-opening, amusing, and appalling, Rachel Sherman's Class Acts explains how class inequality is normalized in the refined atmosphere of luxury hotels. This beautifully observed and engagingly written ethnography describes what kinds of deference and personal recognition money can buy. Moreover, it shows how workers who provide luxury service avoid seeing themselves as subordinate and how those whose whims are catered to are made comfortable with their privilege. Class Acts is a sobering and timely account of the legitimation of extreme inequality in a culture that prizes egalitarianism."--Robin Leidner, University of Pennsylvania "Rachel Sherman provides a penetrating and engrossing study of workers and guests in luxury hotels. Do workers resent the guests? Do guests disdain the workers? Sherman argues neither is true-and explains why."--Julia Wrigley, author of Other People's Children
French Pastry At The Ritz Paris
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Author : François Perret
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2020-04-07
French Pastry At The Ritz Paris written by François Perret and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with categories.
Indulge yourself with the finest pastries in the world, created by the award-winning pastry chef of the legendary Ritz Hotel in Paris Welcome to the universe of François Perret, pastry chef at the Ritz Paris. Savor sumptuous pastries and cakes: the famous honey madeleine, or the Poire BelleHélène en cage, and explore too this legendary hotel on the Place Vendome. Perret writes about his inspiration for his top ten creations, and then five haute pâtisserie desserts are each interpreted in three different variations: as an appetizer (la touche), as a main dessert, and as a light, sweet finishing flourish (la sucrerie). The book concludes with Perret's favorite: marble cake nestled in its pretty box stamped with the name of the famous hotel; the dessert unveils itself like a precious gem.
Ritz Paris
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Author : Laure VERCHERE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-10
Ritz Paris written by Laure VERCHERE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with Travel categories.
The legendary Ritz on Paris' Place Vendôme is more than a luxury hotel; its very name evokes dreams of the City of Light. International luminaries from the worlds of high society, fashion, art, literature, cinema, finance, and diplomacy have illuminated its rooms, from the Duchess of Windsor, Coco Chanel, and Ernest Hemingway to Maria Callas, Marc Chagall, and Marlene Dietrich. After four years of careful restoration, the Ritz Paris has again opened its doors, a glamorous star taking the stage of the Place Vendôme with renewed spirit. This radiant volume overflows with elegant imagery illustrating the Ritz's esteemed guests and showcasing the impeccable work of architect Didier Beautemps and interior designer Thierry W. Despont.
Sisters In Resistance
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Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Sisters In Resistance written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The extraordinary true story of how three women — a fascist’s daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite — raced against Hitler’s SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum: release her husband, Italy’s former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband’s diaries to the press. Knowing the diaries would expose Nazi lies and create a foundation for war crimes prosecutions, Hitler and Mussolini vowed to do everything in their power to see the diaries destroyed — even if it meant killing Mussolini’s daughter. To do this, they ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries’ location. However, the seducer became the seduced, joining forces with Edda to try to save Ciano from execution. When this failed, Edda fled, with Hilde’s daring assistance, to keep Ciano’s final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. Upon learning of Edda’s escape, the head of United States intelligence, Alan Dulles, sent in socialite Frances de Chollet, assigned by chance to a mission that would change her life. Her task was to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Against all expectations, what developed was a rich and humanising friendship between the two women. Staying one step ahead of the Gestapo agents who were hunting Edda, together they succeeded in preserving one of the most important historic documents of World War II. Containing all the detailed twists and turns of a spy thriller, this is the story of three women, each faced with unbearable pressures and weighty moral questions, whose lives were drawn together in one of the most unlikely rescues of World War II.
O Hotel Na Place Vend Me
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Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
language : pt-BR
Publisher: Editora Intrinseca
Release Date : 2016-10-19
O Hotel Na Place Vend Me written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and has been published by Editora Intrinseca this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Inaugurado em 1898, na Place Vendôme, no coração de Paris, o Hôtel Ritz logo se tornou sinônimo de luxo e exclusividade, frequentado por estrelas de cinema e escritores célebres, ricas herdeiras americanas, playboys excêntricos, políticos e príncipes. Na década de 1920, o bar do hotel se tornou o ponto de encontro de F. Scott Fitzgerald e outros autores da Geração Perdida, entre eles Ernest Hemingway. Em 1940, quando a França foi dominada pelos alemães, o Ritz foi o único hotel de alto luxo autorizado pelo Terceiro Reich a continuar funcionando na cidade ocupada. Em O hotel na Place Vendôme, Tilar Mazzeo investiga a história desse marco cultural desde a sua inauguração na Paris de fin de siècle até a era moderna. E, acima de tudo, faz uma crônica extraordinária da vida no Ritz durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando o hotel serviu, ao mesmo tempo, de quartel-general dos mais graduados oficiais alemães e de lar dos milionários que permaneceram na cidade, entre eles Coco Chanel. Mazzeo nos conduz pelos salões de jantar, suítes, bares e adegas do imponente edifício, revelando um território propício para negócios ilícitos e intrigas mortais, além de extraordinários atos de rebeldia e traição. Rico em detalhes e repleto de histórias fascinantes, O hotel na Place Vendôme é uma narrativa impressionante sobre glamour, opulência e extravagância, e também sobre conexões perigosas, espionagem e resistência. Uma viagem inesquecível a um período único e intrigante da história, quando a França — e toda a Europa — sofreu transformações que definiriam o mundo como o conhecemos hoje. “Roubo de obras de arte, agentes duplos, um lendário barman transmitindo mensagens secretas para a Resistência: uma história rica e complexa.” Kirkus Reviews
