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Paris, France
Hôtel du Louvre
Paris, France. Located on Place André-Malraux, facing the Louvre and the Comédie-Française, in line with the Avenue de l’Opéra.
- Opened
- 1855
- Rooms
- 164rooms and suites
- City
- ParisFrance
- Setting
- CityEurope
Practical information
- Address
- Hôtel du Louvre
Place André Malraux
75001 Paris
France - Telephone
- +33 1 73 11 12 34
- Official website
- parishoteldulouvre.hyatt.com
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- Some 164 rooms and suites, including the Pissarro Suite named after the painter who worked from its windows.
- Second Empire interiors by Alfred Armand, Charles Rohault de Fleury and Auguste Pellechet: marble, columns, grand staircase and glass roof.
- Part of The Unbound Collection by Hyatt, with a fitness room and concierge services.
- Located on Place André-Malraux, facing the Louvre and the Comédie-Française, in line with the Avenue de l’Opéra.
History
9 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Commissioned under Napoleon III for the Exposition Universelle, the Grand Hôtel du Louvre opens as the first of Paris’s grand hotels, east of today’s site.
With about 700 rooms, lifts and 1,250 staff, it pioneers services such as station omnibuses, interpreters and currency exchange; 41 luxury boutiques line its ground floor.
The shops of the Grands Magasins du Louvre take over the original building, and the hotel moves across Place du Palais-Royal to its present site.
Camille Pissarro paints several views of Paris from the windows of his suite.
Sigmund Freud stays at the hotel and writes his study of a childhood memory of Leonardo da Vinci there.
During the Second World War, the hotel serves as headquarters for an SS Sonderkommando.
Architect Sybille de Margerie redecorates the interiors.
The sale by Concorde Hotels & Resorts to Qatari investors is completed; Constellation Hotels Holdings becomes owner and Hyatt operator.
The interiors and the façades on Rue Saint-Honoré and Rue de Rohan are renovated.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “Hôtel du Louvre” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Travel Weekly Asia hotel listing. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
