Hôtel San Régis

Rue Jean-Goujon was opened in 1823 and named after Jean Goujon, a 16th-century French sculptor and architect.^[1]

Number 12 was a private house before it became a hotel. In 1900 a directory of Paris property owners listed it under the name de Rougemont, and a street guide of 1910 calls it the house of M. D. de Rougemont. The hotel says the house was built in 1857 for an Edmond Petit, which no record found so far confirms.^[2][3][4]

André Terrail, the owner of the Paris restaurant La Tour d'Argent, turned the house into a hotel. In January 1924 his advertisements described the Hôtel San Regis at 12 rue Jean-Goujon as newly opened. In October 1925 Terrail applied for a permit to add four storeys to the building, with an architect named Lefranc. His son, Claude Terrail, wrote in 1974 that André Terrail built several Paris hotels, the San Régis among them.^[5][6][4][7]

After the Second World War, Carmel Snow, the editor of the American fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, stayed at the San Régis when she came to Paris for the fashion shows. The New York Herald Tribune listed her at the hotel from 1946 to 1950, including the week of Christian Dior's first collection in February 1947. In 1952 a French film directory gave the hotel as the address of the actress Martine Carol.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Elie Georges bought the hotel in 1984, and the decorator Pierre-Yves Rochon renovated it the following year. His daughters, Sarah and Zeina Georges, run it today. The hotel says Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly and other film stars were regular guests. No record of their stays has been found.^[4][12]

Across the street, at 11 rue Jean-Goujon, the couturier Yves Saint Laurent opened his own fashion house on 4 December 1961, in borrowed studios, while its permanent address in the 16th arrondissement was being fitted out.^[13]