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History

Construction of place Vendome

• 1702: Construction of place Vendome.
Number 15 was the hotel Gramont and number 17 was the hotel Crozat

Background of Cesar Ritz
• 1850: Birth of Cesar Ritz in Niederwald, Switzerland.
• 1867: Cesar Ritz comes to Paris at the occasion of the Exposition Universelle and starts working as a young waiter in different Restaurants.
• 1881: Ritz becomes the Director of the Grand Hotel de Monte Carlo.
• 1888: Ritz and his partner Auguste Escoffier buy a restaurant in Baden-Baden.
• 1889: Sir Richard d’Oily Carte convinces Cesar Ritz to becomes the Director of the his famous Hotel Savoy in London.
• 1896: Cesar Ritz creates the Ritz Hotel Development Company. César Ritz decides to create a new style of Luxury Hotel destinated to clients ready to pay a very high price under the condition he offers them what they cannot find anywhere else.

Hotel Ritz Paris
• 1895-1898: Construction of the Hotel under the architect Charles Frederic Mewes, who also build the no longer existing Hotel Carlton in London (1897-1899), the Hotel Ritz in London (1904-1905), the Hotel Ritz in Madrid (1908-1910) and the Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian (1910-1912)
• 1895-1898: Construction of the Hotel by Cesar Ritz.
• 1898 June 1: Grand Opening of the Hotel.
• 1918 October 26: Death of Cesar Ritz in Kuesnacht, Switzerland.
• 1908 – 1922: Writing of the Novel « A la recherche du temps perdu » by Marcel Proust who describes people staying at the Ritz. Proust is frequently dining at the hotel and he is using information given by the maître d’hôtel Olivier Dabescat.
• 1930 May 17: The building is transformed as the historical monument .

Coco Chanel

• 1937: Coco Chanel moves into the Hotel Ritz.
• 1939: End of the Belle Epoque, the picture shows Coco Chanel, a permanent resident of the Ritz at the Circus Ball in Versailles.
• 1945 Augst: Liberation of Paris.

• 1954: Coco Chanel rreturns to Paris where she opens her fashion house, already 71 years old.
• 1956: Creation du Restaurant l’Espandon.
• 1957: Love in the Afternoon by Billy Wilder filmed at the Ritz.

• 1960s: When Chanel cannot sleep at knight she contacts her friend Aimee de Heeren who,
four months per year, lives at the nearby Hotel Meurice.
Together they go for a nightwalk through Paris going to
see the Les Halles Centrales foodmarket and the historic staircase of Cremerie de Paris
where Chanel had the idea to invent ger perfume N°5.

• 1964: Audrey Hetburn stays at the Ritz.
• 1971 January 10: Coco Chanel dies in her suite at the Ritz.

Mohamed Al Fayed Era
• 1979: Mohamed Al Fayed buys the Ritz Paris.
• 1988: Establishment of the famous Ritz-Escoffier School of French Gastronomy.
• 1997 August 31: Lady Diana spends her last evening at the Ritz, shortly before her accident. Her compagnon is Dodi Al Fayed, the son of Mohamed Al Fayed, the owner of the Palace.
• 1997: American traveller start to request internet access. France is a little slow to get online.
The concierge of the Ritz redirects clients to Cybercafe de Paris / Cremerie de Paris N°1
as if Cesar Ritz had told him to give the Cremerie a little help
duriing the first years of the internet.
Grand Hotels of the World was invented at the Cafe.

• 2008: Young Francois Beilhache
starts to work at the Ritz,
After the closing for Renovation
Beilhache creats the famous event organizing company Amazing Events Paris
which caters some of the iconic Cremerie de Paris Pop Up Stores
like the one for Acer,
thus creating another link between the Cremerie and the Ritz
• 2012 August 1: The Hotel closes for Renovation.

• 2012-2015: Renovation.

• 2016 june 6: Reopening of the Hotel.

Article by « Grand Hotels of the World & VB.com », written from « Cremerie de Paris ».

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Ownership and Management
• Ownership: Mohamed Al Fayed.
• Management: Hotel Ritz Paris.

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Hotel Ritz
15, Place Vendome
75001 Paris
France

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The sites were invented at Cremerie de Paris, a place full of History.

1370 - 1671 home of the Villeroys, State Advisors,
pied-à-terre of the Bourbons, Kings of France.
1646 - 1654 Louis XIV spend parts of his childhood in our house.

The 5 in our logo does not only represent the Grand Hotels 5 Stars.
It is part of our historic staircase Nicolas "V" de Villeroy, teacher of Louis XIV, build in 1640.
The presence of the young King left an aura to our house ...

1671 Cremerie de Paris became a avant-garde Telecom company
Horses were carryng mail from the VB mansion in Paris
to Pajot & Rouillé or Thurn & Taxis post relais around western Europe,
many of these relais also called Cheval Blanc, Lion d'Or, Hotel de la Poste turned into Hotels.

1869 - 1970 Cremerie de Paris turned into a cheese store at the Halles Centrales food market.
This was the time we had a special connection to the World of Grand Hotels.
Many Grand Hotels came alive ....

Many iconic Hoteliers came by to find products for their restaurants:
Johannes Badrutt,
Cesare Ritz and Auguste Escoffier, Berthold Kempinski, Lorenz Adlon,
Anna Sacher, Aviet Sarkies, Octavio Guinle,
Henri Ruhl, Antoine Sella, Conrad Hilton, Hippolyte Jammet,.....
Some met Empress Eugenie, others Aimée de Heeren.

Everybody was fascinated by the beauty of our Rue des Halles
the young Empress Eugenie had once imagined
from her Biarritz summer residence, the Hotel du Palais.
She liked to show the Pavillons Baltard and the Cremerie de Paris to her visitors.
1870 Eugénie had to leave France but she lived until 1920 and told the stories to a little girl,
who later repeated them to her own children,
among them Anastasia Romanov, great-aunt of the editor of this website.
1970 The story came to an end with the departure of the Halles Centrales foodmarket.

But when a place has a lot of magic,
sometimes a story that left
is a story that returns ...

1987 Cremerie de Paris reopened
as a Sony Phone Boutique growing into the first Internet Cafe in Paris.
The Cybercafe reconnected us to the World of Grand Hotels ...
The first visitors were Americans travelling through Paris where internet was still unknown
One was the assistant of Dr Jon Postel, he pushed us how to get iconic domain names
like our Two Letter VB.com

1999 Others came to for "internet lessons" :
Princess Soraya, had been to many Grand Hotel as Queen
She helped us to create a Hotel History website ...
Guy de Rothschild also knew the financial aspects of many Hotels
Aimée de Heeren once a Brazilian Secret Service agent and girlfriend of Joseph Kennedy Jr
had already been to the 1923 Opening Party of the Copacanbana Palace.

Aimée knew Cremerie de Paris from Dmitri Romanov and Coco Chanel,
in love with the N°5 of our staircase.
Their Hotel Stories were so crazy & funny books should be written - at least you find some in our website ...

2011 Cremerie de Paris was converted into a Pop Up Expo location.
While working on our Hotel pages we host the coolest Product Launch events.
a little bit like a "Meeting Place of the World's most famous Brands".
Above video was made for a Pop Up Store imagined by Antoine Leca from Auditoire
for Nike.

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