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1860-2010, The hotel is celebrating its 150 years!

Posted by Hotel Britannique Categories: History, Paris, Romantic Paris, The Hotel Tags: 3 star hotel paris, Allied bombardment, Années Folles, Art Deco, census, Charles Lindbergh, Christian Dior, Christian Society of Friends, Communards, Dada, Danjou, documentation, First World War, flood, Guide of the Hotels with Charm, Haussmann, Henry Miller, Hotel Britannique, Hotel Britannique Paris, liberation, metro, Miss Louise Claude Baxter, Napoleon III, Nazi occupation, Olympic Games, Paris Universal Exhibition, Perret-Baxters, plaque, Queen Victoria, Rolland-Garros, romantic paris hotel, Second Empire, Seine, Sorbonne, Statue of Liberty, students revolt, Surrealism, telephone, The Avenue Victoria, The declaration of Independance, The Eiffel Tower, The Paris Commune, The Quakers, Tripadvisor, Voltaire, ‘La Belle Epoque’ 7 comments

1860 – The Hotel Britannique is born, right in the heart of the 1st area of Paris. The Hotel is…
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A brief but essential history of Paris

Posted by Hotel Britannique Categories: History Tags: 14 july, 3 star hotel paris, Charles IX, city of lights, Clovis, Communards, Commune, eiffel tower, french revolution, Gaulish, Haussmann, Hélène, History, Hotel Britannique, Hotel Britannique Paris, Industrial Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, Louis XIV, Lutetia, massacre, monarchy, Napoleon, Paris, Paris Metro line, Paris Universal Exhibition, parisians, Parisii, reign, Restoration, Roman, romantic paris hotel, Saint Louis, Second Empire, Second Republic, Storming of Bastille, the enlightenment, Trojan War, Versailles 4 comments

The name Paris derives from that of its inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii (from the 3rd century…
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