L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury

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in Saint-Germain-des-Prés,

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. It was built in the 19th century and has had various names, Hôtel d’Allemagne, then Hôtel d’Alsace (after the

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), and was renamed L'Hôtel in 1963. The hotel is located along 13 Rue des Beaux Arts, 75006 Paris, France.

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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". Other former residents included

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, actress and singer

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, and the blind writer

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, who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker". 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. (Borges actually died in

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, however.)

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L'Hotel bar in Paris - Stierch.jpg, Hotel bar Oscar Wilde plaque, 13 rue des Beaux Arts, Paris 6.jpg,

's final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), in Paris

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