Hôtel Ritz Paris — Paris, France
About Hôtel Ritz Paris
The Ritz has been a Paris institution since Victorian times, and its Bar Hemingway sticks with the theme. Rooms aren't literary in vibe, and we don't always know which parts of the current hotel's blueprint were the "real" locations of the literary lore the building carries today. What we do know is that the entire building drips with literary history. The hotel's Director of Heritage has stated that the hotel is thought to be the most cited hotel in Western literature, with at least 150 novels and plays either set at the Ritz or directly inspired by it.that includes Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night , Noêl Coward's play, Semi-Monde , Amélie Nothomb's Pétronille , Barbara Cartland's Idylle au Ritz , A. E. Hotchner's The Man Who Lived at the Ritz , and even a 1985 X-Men comic featured a character staying at the Ritz. Here's what you can do: hit up the Bar Hemingway for the author's own un…
Literary significance
Original chaaracter and atmosphere in writers' suites, more as historical tribute than preservation
Authors
- Marcel Proust
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ian Fleming
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Noël Coward
- Graham Greene
- George Bernard Shaw
Location
15 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France