Leonard Tauber planned that his hotel de voyageur should cater for discerning visitors from all over the world. In his 1910 brochure Hotel Majestic Paris he wrote “…on peut affirmer que toutes les familles aisées, de passage à Paris, y trouveront des avantages qu’elles ne peuvent rencontrer dans aucun autre hôtel de premier ordre.” [1]… Continue reading The Sound of Gunfire
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Postcards Home
In1911, as the Majestic celebrated its third anniversary, the hotel was full and business brisk. According to the famous Ward, Lock & Co’s Paris and Environs guidebook Tauber’s hotel was ranked as a Series I hotel (“most luxurious and expensive”) alongside The Ritz and Meurice, both of which were much older, The Ritz having opened… Continue reading Postcards Home
Digging Deep
hen guests walk the corridors of the Paris Peninsula the loudest noise is likely to be the sound of their own breathing. Maybe they will hear a door close, softly, like a kiss. Or a footman will come past carrying a tray draped in white linen, silver and porcelain floating in its midst. The corridors… Continue reading Digging Deep