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The Ritz Paris offers rooms, suites, restaurants, bars, and the Ritz Club & Spa at 15 place Vendôme. Select a room for its space and outlook; views vary by category.
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Espadon, Bar Vendôme, Salon Proust, and the Ritz Bar offer several ways to eat or pause at the hotel.
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+33 1 43 16 30 30The history of this address
César Ritz's palace on the Place Vendôme — the fixed point of Right Bank luxury, where F. Scott Fitzgerald's bar legend, Tender Is the Night's longest bender, and Ernest Hemingway's two best Ritz stories all check in.
César Ritz opened the hotel that carries his name in 1898, with Auguste Escoffier running the kitchens, and between them they more or less invented the modern luxury hotel — electric light, a bathroom to every room, and service calibrated to make royalty feel adequately received. The address did the rest: the Place Vendôme side for the grand entrance, the long corridor of vitrines back to the rue Cambon side, and, tucked there, the small bar that would collect more literary legend per square meter than any room in Paris.
For the expatriate books, the Ritz is the Right Bank's pole star — the money register against which Montparnasse's saucers are counted. Fitzgerald made the bar practically a second byline: it is where Tender Is the Night installs Abe North — the Divers' brilliant, failing composer friend — for his long, ruinous last morning of charm before the boat train, and where A Moveable Feast lands its final Fitzgerald joke — Georges the barman, years later, asking Hemingway who this Monsieur Fitzgerald was that everyone kept asking about.
Hemingway's own Ritz legends bookend the war. In August 1944 he arrived with the liberation, a band of irregulars in tow, and 'liberated' the hotel bar — the martini count has grown with every telling, which is how he would have wanted it. And in 1956, by the story he told, the basement yielded two small trunks he had left in 1928: the notebooks that became A Moveable Feast. The hotel restored itself top to bottom from 2012 to 2016; the little bar on the Cambon side now carries Hemingway's name, which settles the argument about who won it.
César Ritz opens the hotel on the Place Vendôme, Escoffier commanding the kitchens — the template of modern luxury.
The rich Americans' pole star: Fitzgerald adopts the bar, and the Ritz becomes fiction's shorthand for the Right Bank at full wattage.
Fitzgerald gives the bar its longest scene in Tender Is the Night — Abe North's last morning, charm dissolving by the glass.
August: Hemingway and his irregulars 'liberate' the bar; the martini tally grows with every retelling.
The trunks: two cases left in 1928 surface from the basement, by Hemingway's account — the seed of A Moveable Feast.
Open as ever after the 2012–2016 restoration; the Cambon-side bar carries Hemingway's name.
Recalled in the memoir
The Fitzgerald chapters close at the Ritz bar — Georges the barman asking, years later, who this Monsieur Fitzgerald was — and by Hemingway's own telling, the memoir began in the hotel's basement, in two trunks left in 1928 and recovered in 1956.
Setting of the story
The Paris chapters install Abe North at the Ritz bar for his long, ruinous last morning — charm dissolving glass by glass before the boat train, one of the novel's great set pieces of waste.
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From prewar drinks with Fitzgerald to the August 1944 afternoon he arrived with his irregulars to 'liberate' the bar — the hotel repaid the loyalty by putting his name on the room.
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The Ritz became Proust's dining room in his later years — a place he used habitually enough that its staff, and the observation it afforded him of the society he was writing about, belong to the book as much as to his life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about Hôtel Ritz in Tender Is the Night.
Chanel gave up her own apartment and moved into the hotel on the place Vendôme in 1937, keeping a suite there for the rest of her life — including the four years of the German occupation, when the hotel was partly requisitioned by the German command. The Ritz's secondary entrance opens onto the rue Cambon, a few doors from her couture house at number 31. She died in the suite on 10 January 1971.
A luxury hotel on the rue de Castiglione, between the Tuileries and the place Vendôme. It is the strongest candidate for the "Hotel X" of Down and Out in Paris and London — the vast, filthy basement kitchen where George Orwell worked seventeen-hour days as a plongeur. It trades today as part of the Hôtel Costes.
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The photographer Nadar's former studio, where thirty artists mounted the independent exhibition of April 1874 that got them the name Impressionists.
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A grand hotel on the rue de Rivoli facing the Tuileries, and the Paris address Salvador Dalí returned to for roughly thirty years — arriving for a month at a time with a retinue, and treating the suite as a studio, a stage and a place to be seen.
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