Georges Marquet (18 September 1866, in

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– 27 March 1947, in

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) was a Belgian hotel manager and owner of many luxurious hotels in

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. He created the ''Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hôtels Européens'', which later would be part of the Compagnie Internationale des wagons-lits group, created by his compatriote and inventor (among other things) of the

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, the Belgian

Georges Nagelmackers Georges Lambert Casimir Nagelmackers (born 25 June 1845 in Liège, Belgium; deceased 10 August 1905 in Villepreux, France) (60 years old) was a Belgian civil engineer and businessman. He was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons ...

. After he had bought the most luxurious hotels of

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, namely, the Ritz Madrid and the Palace Hotel (''today called Westin Palace''), his son lived in

and was in charge of the Ritz Madrid direction. Georges Marquet was a member of the Belgian Parliament for the Liberal Party, from 1929 until 1936.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marquet, Georges 20th-century Belgian businesspeople 1866 births 1947 deaths