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L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury
L'Hotel bar in Paris - Stierch.jpg, Hotel bar
Oscar Wilde plaque, 13 rue des Beaux Arts, Paris 6.jpg,
"L’Hôtel : the past revisited"
''Paris Capitale''
L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel
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in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
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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 Franco-Prussian War), and was renamed L'Hôtel in 1963.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
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 include Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career, which spanned six decades, including two Academ ...
, actress and singer Mistinguett
Mistinguett (, born Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois; 5 April 1873 – 5 January 1956) was a French actress and singer. She was at one time the highest-paid female entertainer in the world.
Early life
The daughter of Antoine Bourgeois, a 31-year- ...
, and the blind writer Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known bo ...
, 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.
Gallery
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
's final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), in Paris
References
Further reading
* Garcia, Jacques"L’Hôtel : the past revisited"
''Paris Capitale''
External links
* Hotels in Paris Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris Oscar Wilde {{France-hotel-struct-stub