InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel

Coordinates: 48°52′15″N 2°19′52″E / 48.87083°N 2.33111°E / 48.87083; 2.33111
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InterContinental Paris le Grand
Isaac & Émile Pereire
Other information
Number of rooms470
Number of suites72
Number of restaurants2
Website
Official website

The InterContinental Paris le Grand is a historic

luxury hotel in Paris
, France, which opened in 1862.

History

Le Grand Hôtel was built by the wealthy brothers

Baron Haussmann at the time and it was built in the prescribed style, with a mansard roof. Filling an entire triangular city block, the hotel boasted 800 rooms on four floors for guests, with another whole floor for their servants.[1]

Mac-Mahon visiting the Emperor and the Empress of Brazil, Pedro II and Teresa Cristina, at the Grand Hotel (L'Univers illustré
: journal hebdomadaire, nº 1.153, 28 April 1877).

The hotel has hosted royalty throughout its long history, including

Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra, King Edward VII of England and Queen Rania of Jordan. Victor Hugo hosted parties at the Le Grand Hotel and Émile Zola used the hotel for the setting of the death of his tragic character Nana.[3]

In 1869,

Paris Herald, forerunner of the International Herald Tribune, met with Henry Morton Stanley in the hotel's Imperial Suite to convince him to make his famous journey to Africa in search of David Livingstone.[1]

Creditors of the Péreire brothers seized the hotel in 1878, and in 1887, André Million formed Société du Grand Hôtel to manage Le Grand Hotel, along with the nearby

Hotel Meurice and later the Hotel Prince de Galles.[2] The Italian CIGA Hotels chain acquired the three hotels in 1972.[4]

CIGA sold the hotels in 1978 for $25 million to Limnico, a Liberia-based subsidiary of

Inter-Continental Hotels chain in 1981, and placed Le Grand Hotel under their management. The hotel was renovated between 1985 and 1990 by noted French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon.[8]

In 1986, the hotel was renamed Le Grand Hotel Inter-Continental Paris.

InterContinental Hotels Group while the hotel was closed, before it reopened on 5 April 2003,[8] with its name modified slightly, as InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel. InterContinental sold the hotel to Qatar-based Constellation Hotels in 2014 for €330 million, although InterContinental continues to manage the property.[10]

Café de la Paix

The renowned Café de la Paix has been located on the ground floor of the hotel since it opened.

In popular culture

Roman Polanski set much of his 1988 film Frantic, starring Harrison Ford, at the hotel. Most interiors were filmed on soundstages, but numerous exterior scenes were filmed outside the hotel.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Press Kit" (PDF). InterContinental Paris Le Grand. 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Activitiés hôtelières (Grand Hôtel, Café de la Paix, Le Meurice) (1854–2006)" [Hotel activities (Grand Hotel, Café de la Paix, Le Meurice) (1854–2006)] (PDF). Archives of Paris. February 2017.
  3. ^ http://www.cafedelapaix.fr/maj/pdf/Press_Kit_InterContinental_Paris_Le_Grand_2013___EN.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ a b "Dernières hésitations avant la cession du Grand Hôtel à des acheteurs britanniques En savoir plus sur" [Latest delays before the transfer of the Grand Hotel to British buyers]. Le Monde (in French). 20 March 1980.
  5. ^ "Un grand hôtel view voir grand" [The Grand Hotel wants to look grand]. Le Monde (in French). 2 December 1978. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  6. ^ "UK Firm Buys French Hotels". International Herald Tribune. 19–20 January 1980. p. 3.
  7. ^ Powell, Nicholas (15 September 1981). "Au revior and hello to the Grand Hotels of Paris". The Herald. Glasgow.
  8. ^ a b c http://parislegrand.intercontinental.com/assets/uploads/2017/11/Press-Kit-InterContinental-Paris-Le-Grand.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ https://www.verif.com/societe/GRAND-HOTEL-INTER-CONTINENTAL-PARIS-339196685/
  10. London Evening Standard
    .

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