L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. It was built in the 19th century and has had various names, Hôtel d’Allemagne, then Hôtel d’Alsace (after the Franco-Prussian War), and was renamed L'Hôtel in 1963.
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Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in 1900, when it was known as the Hôtel d'Alsace. The hotel appears to have been run-down at the time, but Wilde remarked "I am dying beyond my means".[1] Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and the blind writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker".[2] The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's "The Happy Prince" into Spanish and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to die where the writer of his childhood had also died.[3] (Borges actually died in Geneva, however.)
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Oscar Wilde's final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), in Paris
References
edit- ^ Piers Letcher. Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France. Bradt Travel Guides, 2003, p. 176.
- ^ Falconer, Kieran (2004-09-11). "Gilt trip". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ "Jornal Rascunho". Retrieved 29 September 2014.[permanent dead link]
Further reading
edit- Garcia, Jacques, "L’Hôtel : the past revisited". Paris Capitale
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