''For the former hotel in

Cannes Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. T ...

, see Château Vallombrosa.''

The ''Hôtel du Parc'' (Park Hotel) is a former hotel in the center of

Vichy Vichy (, ; ; oc, Vichèi, link=no, ) is a city in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais. It is a spa and resort town and in World War II was the capital of ...

, a

spa town A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits. Thomas Guidott set up a medical practice in the English town of Bath in 1668. He ...

in the center of

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which hosted during the

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the government of the French state (''État français''), commonly known as

Vichy France Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its te ...

. The hotel hosted a part of the government offices and the private apartment and offices of the

Maréchal Pétain Maréchal is the French equivalent of English Marshal. Maréchale is the feminine form mainly used to denote the wife of a marshal in France. It can also refer to: Military ranks * Maréchal général des camps et armées du roi, former French d ...

, during the

Vichy regime Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...

and after 1942 also the offices of

Pierre Laval Pierre Jean Marie Laval (; 28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician. During the Third Republic, he served as Prime Minister of France from 27 January 1931 to 20 February 1932 and 7 June 1935 to 24 January 1936. He again occ ...

. The building is now a private real estate. The bedroom and the private cabinet of Petain are still owned by the '' Association pour défendre la mémoire du maréchal Pétain''Les nostalgiques de Pétain ont rénové sa chambre de l'hôtel du Parc
''La Montagne'', 10 avril 2011. (Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain).

References

* Translated from the article of Wikipedia in French

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hotel du Parc Vichy France Defunct hotels in France Buildings and structures in Allier