Hotel Lutetia
On the Left Bank close to galleries, top fashion designers and the department store Le Bon Marche. The Lutetia accommodated numerous painters and writers (Picasso, Matisse, André Gide…) as well as the not so nice Nazi high command in WWII. The 1910 Art Deco gem is still in great shape.
Hotel Lutetia
45 Blvd. Raspail
75006 Paris
I love when the dying-to-be hip, ultra-pretentious, trivialize the Nazi occupation of Paris by calling the Gestapo "not so nice."
Posted by: Bob | Jul 26, 2007 at 03:37 PM
Me too Bobby. have you seen Vice magazine these days. I guess boys will be boys, eh? But now that Sarko's in the Elysées Palace you could be right, maybe we're on the crest of a nazi-chic revival.
Posted by: suzanne | Jul 26, 2007 at 03:57 PM
Don't forget that Hotel Lutetia is also where survivors of concentration camps returned to be reunited with family members. I disagree that using the expression 'not so nice' trivializes the Gestapo. It's like saying the Devil is 'not so nice'. The cultural understanding of the Devil, Hitler/ Nazism makes these words synonymous. I doubt very much that the writer is 'dying-to-be-hip, ultrapretentious, or trying to trivialize anything.
Posted by: Parisgirl | Aug 08, 2007 at 05:16 PM
While the writer, Ms. Hollands, is pretentious (i've had the pleasure of making her acquaintance) I'm confident her intentions were not to trivialize such matters. She is, after all, Paris' new 'Sex and the City' girl and so she deserves a bit of artistic latitude and a great deal of respect.
And she's hot too (so bugger off)
G
Posted by: Guillermo | Aug 11, 2007 at 06:00 PM
Hotel Lutetia is a very nice hotel. i like the rooms because its very comfortable and clean. try these place, its really worth staying.
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