Background of the Building
• 1758: Construction of the place de la Concorde
under Louis XV, the 4th Bourbon King of France.
The Duc de Noilles gets some grounds around todays Faubourg St Honoré.
• 178X: Countess de Damas buys the property.
• 178X: Countess de Vogue, daughter of Countess Damas
inherits the property.
• 1829: Count Jules de Castellane buys the property.
He adds a theater which is a reception room today.
Many parties are hosted at the Castellane Mansion, Empress Eugenie attends some of them.
Background of Hippolyte Janet
• 1888: Francois Jammet, father of Hippolyte,
becomes the chef of the Cafe de Deux Mondes, rue de la Paix.
• 189X: Francois Jammet, opens the restaurant Bouef à la Mode, rue de Valois, Palais Royal.
• 1893: Birth of Hippolyte Jammet.
• 1900s: uring his childhood Hippolyte Jammet
knows the Cremerie de Paris,
a famous cheese store at the Halles Centrales foodmarket.
Today Grand Hotels of the World is edited from the same Cremerie de Paris.
• 191X: Hippolyte Jammet gets trained at the Hotel Meurice in Paris.
• 191X: Hippolyte Jammet gets trained at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
• 1919: The Jammet family buys the Hotel Bellevue.
• 1921: The Jammet family sells the Hotel Bellevue.
History
• 1923: Acquisition of the propert by Hippolyte Jammet from Julles De Castellane. Hippolyte was only 30 years old
• 1924: Transformation of the Castellane Mansion into a Luxury Hotel. The architects are Gustave Umbdenstock et Urbain Cassan.
• 1925: April Opening of the Hotel.
Like the Hotel Bristol in Vienna or the the the Hotel Bristol in Warsaw the Hotel is named after the excentic British traveller, Frederick Harvey, 4th earl of Bristol.
• 1938: Aimee Lopes de Sotto Maior arrives in Paris as a Brazilian Secret agent. She attends several meetings in the Bristol.
Over half a century later the same Aimée has an impact on the creation
of Grand Hotels of the World.
• 1940: With the outbreak of World War II
Bristol becomes home of the US Embassy
and Americans living in Paris.
Many diplomats visiting Paris during the war stay at the Bristol.
A special arrangement is made with the US ambassador William Bullit.
• 1940 - 1941: Anne Morgan, daughter of the powerful banquer JP Morgan lives at the Hotel.
• 1949s: The French minisry of tourism classifies the Bristol as a 4 star Luxury Hotel, the highest standard in France.
• 1950s: Luitwin von Boch, a German Businessman and friend of Konrad Adenauer frequently comes to Paris for post war negociations.
He knows the Bristol from Françoise Heuser, one of Hippolte Jammets daughters.
Von Boch would have a later impact on the future of the Hotel.
• 1951s: The first West German chanceler Konrad Adenauer
stays at the Bristol for the first time.
• 1954: Pierre Cardin opens a store across the Bristol. More fashion brands settle on Faubourg St Honore.
• 1968: Pierre Jammet, one of the ten children of Hippolyte becomes manager of the Hotel.
• 1975: Josephone Baker gives a grand reception to celebrate her 50th business anniversary.
• 1977: Pierre Jammet wants to sell the Hotel and asks his client and friend of his sister
Luitwin von Boch if he can help him
to find a buyer that respects the tradition of the Hotel.
Von Boch that has already intiated the 1968 sale of the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes contacts Oetkger again.
• 1978: Acquisition by the German Industrialist Rudolf August Oetker making the Bristol
his 3rd Grand Hotel
after the Brenners Park Hotel in Baden Baden and the Hotel du Cap in Antibes.
• 1980: Construction of a roothtop Swimming Pool with view over Paris. The pool is designed like a large sail boat with view on the Hotel du Cap on the Cap d'Antibes. The architect Pinnau has also designed the Onassis and the Niarchos yachts.
• 1980: Aquisition of the ajescent couvent of the "Petites Sœurs de la Bonne Espérance" making it possible to create the Bristol Garden. With 1200m2 it is the largest garden of a Paris Grand Hotel.
• 1982: Construction of an underground Garage.
• 1994: Pierre Ferchaud becomes the manager of the Hotel.
• 1999: Eric Frechand comes to the Bristol restaurant.
• 2001: The Bristol restaurant Epicure gets a second Michelin star.
• 2003 june: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his wife Lois stay at the Bristol.
• 2005: Opening of a new Bristol Bar.
• 2007: Acquisition of the next door building. Property located at the corner of Avenue Montaigne and Faubourg Saint Honoré
• 2007: Opening of the Spa La Prairie.
• 2009: Opening of the new building including a restaurant called 114 Faubourg, 21 rooms and 5 suites.
• 2009: The Bristol restaurant Epicure gets te 3rd Michelin star.
• 2009: Video by the Romanian fashion icon Luana Ibacka.
• 2009 September 15: Hotel le Bristol adds 21 rooms from the new building and the restaurant 114 Faubourg.
• 2010 March 29: Didier Le Calvez becomes PDG of the Hotel le Bristol.
• 2011 May 5: Hotel Le Bristol receives the new official Label « Palace ***** » given by the French Ministry of Tourism to describe a new elite categorie of 5 Star Hotels in France. Unlike Hotel Le Bristol not every French « Palace » is part of « Palace Hotels of the World.com » , as some do not have enough historic background to be listed.
• 2010: The writer Caroline von Krockow Lahame lives next to the Bristol. She is frequently seen in the Lobby.
• 2011: La rayonnante Canadienne Leah Marshall becomes the directrice of th Bristol.
• 2012 September: Shooting of the film "Midnight in Paris" by Woody Allen with the actors Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.
• 2012 September: Opening of the new Bristol Bar.
• 2013: Restaurant 114 Faubourg gets a Michelin star.
• 2016: Luca Allegri becomes the Manager of the Hotel Bristol.
• 2016 August: The German inventor Michael Gantner comes to the Bristol.