The Hotel on Place Vendome

from seeword

This is an interesting topic treated as a mix of history and gossip. The author refers to some of the people by their first names only and others by their surnames only. Often this happens in the same paragraph. I found the coy chapter about "Marcel" and the Dreyfus Affair particular annoying. Th...

from sloreck

Mazzeo tells an interesting story with emphasis on the years around World War II. It seemed to me that she still had a lot of material left at the end and just appended it, and didn't really edit that material. Just a couple Google searches would have improved the book. She talks about Barbara Hu...

from Ronrose1

There's a reason they sing songs about the Ritz. It was a fabulous hotel to meet, greet, and eat in the city of lights, Paris. From it's inception, just before the turn of the twentieth century, it was de rigueur for the rich and famous to party, make love, and plan the future of Europe from insi...