By Tilar J. Mazzeo

Established in 1898 within the middle of Paris at the position Vendôme, the Hôtel Ritz immediately grew to become an icon of the town frequented via movie stars and big name writers, American heiresses and risqué flappers, politicians, playboys, and princes. by way of the Twenties the bar turned a favourite watering gap for F. Scott Fitzgerald and different writers of the misplaced iteration, together with Ernest Hemingway. In June 1940, whilst France fell to the Germans, Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the 3rd Reich, famously declared that the nation's capital might stay a high-spirited place—or else. Orders from Berlin specific that the Hôtel Ritz may be the in basic terms luxurious inn of its sort in occupied Paris.

Tilar J. Mazzeo lines the background of this cultural landmark from its starting in fin de siècle Paris to the trendy period. At its middle, The lodge on position Vendôme chronicles lifestyles on the Ritz in the course of wartime, while the inn at the same time served as headquarters to the highest-ranking German officials, similar to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, and residential to filthy rich buyers (and to the spies between them) who stayed on in Paris. At Coco Chanel's desk within the eating room on any given night, one may perhaps locate the playwright and screenwriter Sacha Guitry, the lithe Russian ballet superstar Serge Lifar, or Jean Cocteau and his good-looking boyfriend.

Mazzeo takes us into the grand palace's suites, bars, eating rooms, and wine cellars, revealing a hotbed of illicit affairs and lethal intrigue, in addition to attractive acts of defiance and treachery, within which refugees have been hidden in mystery rooms, a Jewish bartender handed coded messages for the German resistance, and Wehrmacht officials plotted to assassinate the Führer. by means of the spring of 1944, because the tides of the battle shifted, those tales have been all coming to their dramatic and infrequently heartbreaking conclusions. there have been celebrations in addition: whilst Ernest Hemingway lower back within the final hours of the profession along with his rogue band of "irregular" troops to free up the Hôtel Ritz, additionally they liberated many bottles of classic wine from its cellars.

The result's the tale of The resort on position Vendôme—a singular season on the world-class inn, an intimate and riveting portrait of the final days of the second one international struggle.

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