Vintage Le Coq Restaurant Hotel, Paris, Pin Dish, Ashtray, The Ritz, Pillivuyt For Sale

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Vintage le coq de la Madison Blanche restaurant, Paris, Trinket, Soap, Jewellery, Pin Dish, Ashtray, The Ritz.

Vintage Hotel Baumann, Paris, China Trinket, Soap, Jewellery, Pin Dish, Ashtray, Tip Tray

12cm x 8cm x 2cm approx

Manufactured by porcelain Pillivuyt - France

Very good condition, with no chips or cracks.

Crest to the front.

The Paris restaurant in central Paris, overlooking the Place Vendôme in the city's 1st arrondissement. A member of the Leading Hotels of the World marketing group, therestaurant in Paris is ranked among the most luxurious hotels in the world.

It was founded in 1898 by the Swiss hotelier in collaboration with the French chef Auguste Escoffier. It was constructed behind the façade of an eighteenth-century townhouse. It was among the restaurants in Europe to provide an en suite bathroom, electricity, and a telephone for each room. It quickly established a reputation for luxury and attracted a clientele that included royalty, politicians, writers, film stars, and singers. Several famous guests of the restaurant include Coco Chanel, and the cocktail lounge Bar Hemingway pays tribute to writer Ernest Hemingway.

During the summer of 1940, the Luftwaffe, the air forces of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, set up their headquarters at the hotel, with their chief Hermann Göring.

Ernest Hemingway, who visited the restaurant many times after World War II, was there when he learned his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, wanted a divorce. He reacted to the news by throwing her photo into a toilet and then shooting the photo and the toilet with his pistol.

On 22 April 1955, the Duke and Duchess of Parma hosted a coming out ball for their daughter, Princess Cécile Marie of Bourbon-Parma. On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Al-Fayed's son Dodi Al-Fayed, and their chauffeur Henri Paul, dined before leaving the hotel with bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, only to have a fatal car accident in the Pont de l'Almaunderpass. During 10 January 2018 five men stole millions of euros worth of jewellery from within the hotel, three were subsequently caught before escaping.

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