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Paris, France
InterContinental Paris Le Grand
Paris, France. 357 rooms and 101 suites, among them signature suites overlooking the Opéra Garnier.
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- Opened
- 1862
- Rooms
- 458rooms and suites
- City
- ParisFrance
- Setting
- CityEurope
Practical information
- Address
- InterContinental Paris Le Grand
2 rue Scribe
75009 Paris
France - Telephone
- +33 1 40 07 32 32
- Official website
- parislegrand.intercontinental.com
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- 357 rooms and 101 suites, among them signature suites overlooking the Opéra Garnier.
- The Café de la Paix, on the ground floor since 1862, plus La Verrière winter garden and the Bar du Grand Hôtel.
- Spa and fitness centre, Club Lounge, and the Salon Opéra ballroom for galas and weddings.
- Located on Place de l’Opéra, filling an entire triangular block beside the Palais Garnier.
History
11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
Construction begins for the Pereire brothers, to designs by Alfred Armand, as part of Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris.
Empress Eugénie inaugurates Le Grand Hôtel, which officially opens on 30 June with 800 guest rooms over four floors.
In the Imperial Suite, James Gordon Bennett Jr. persuades Henry Morton Stanley to set out in search of David Livingstone.
Creditors of the Pereire brothers seize the hotel; in 1887 André Million forms the Société du Grand Hôtel to run it.
Jean-Luc Godard shoots much of “Alphaville” in the lobby, corridors and winter garden.
The hotel passes to CIGA, then Limnico, then Grand Metropolitan, which places it under Inter-Continental management.
Designer Pierre-Yves Rochon renovates the hotel, renamed Le Grand Hotel Inter-Continental Paris in 1986.
Roman Polanski sets much of “Frantic”, starring Harrison Ford, at the hotel.
After closing in December 2001 for renovation, it reopens as InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel.
InterContinental sells the hotel to Qatar-based Constellation Hotels for €330 million while keeping its management.
A restoration led by Pierre-Yves Rochon, begun in 2018, is completed.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “InterContinental Paris Le Grand Hotel” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Official website · Hospitality ON, 25 June 2021. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
