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  6. Hotel Lutetia in Paris

 Hotel Lutetia in Paris à Paris 1er dans Paris 6ème

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Grand hôtel classé MH

Hotel Lutetia in Paris

    43-51 Boulevard Raspail
    75006 Paris 6e Arrondissement
Ownership of a private company
Museums of France
All houses and villas classified in France Grand hotel ranked MH
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Crédit photo : Coyau - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1910
Opening of the hotel
1940-1945
German occupation and reception centre
2007
Partial classification at Historic Monuments
2014-2018
Major renovation
2018
Reopening and Palace label
2025
Integration into the Mandarin Oriental Group
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

All facades and roofs on streets and on the course of the hotel; the lobby; the reception hall; the gallery; Borghese living room (former dining room); Saint-Germain lounge (old winter garden); the three stairs with their cage; the entrance hall of the 1912 extension; the palary rotunda of the President salon; the salon president (former hall of parties) with its chandeliers Lalique (cad. BH 108): registration by order of 16 October 2007

Key figures

Marguerite Boucicaut - Founder Owner of the Bon Marché, initiator of the project.
Louis-Charles Boileau - Architect Co-designer of the hotel with Henri Tauzin.
Adrien Karbowsky - Artist Author of Art Deco frescoes.
Charles de Gaulle - Historical customer He lived there before the war and in 1940.
Joséphine Baker - Famous customer He stayed there with his children.
Jean-Michel Wilmotte - Architect of the renovation Directed the work from 2014 to 2018.

Origin and history

The hotel Lutetia, inaugurated in 1910 at the initiative of Marguerite Boucicaut, owner of the Bon Marché, was designed to accommodate provincial and international customers of the department store. Located at 45 Raspail Boulevard, it embodies Art Nouveau architecture with facades decorated with sculptures by Léon Binet evoking the vine, symbol of the ancient Lutèce. His interiors combine Art Deco and frescoes by Adrien Karbowsky, while his name and motto (Fluctuat nec mergitur) pay homage to Paris. The hotel soon became a popular venue for parliamentarians, artists (Picasso, Matisse, Gide) and writers (Joyce, Beckett, Saint-Exupéry), as well as figures such as Josephine Baker and Charles de Gaulle, who resided there during his Parisian stays.

During World War II, the hotel was requisitioned by the German intelligence service Abwehr from June 1940 until the Liberation. From April 1945 it became the National Centre for the Reception and Control of Deportees, hosting between 17,000 and 20,000 survivors of Nazi camps. Resistance fighters such as Berty Albrecht or Sabine Zlatin organized the reception, while electoral panels were used to display photos of the missing to facilitate the reunion. A commemorative plaque today perpetuates this memory.

Partially listed as historical monuments in 2007, the Lutetia closed in 2014 for a renovation of 200 million euros led by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Reopened in 2018 with 184 rooms and a spa of 700 m2, he obtained the palace label in 2019. In 2025 he joined the Mandarin Oriental group, becoming Mandarin Oriental Lutetia. His artistic heritage, including works by Arman, Caesar or Sonia Rykiel, was partly dispersed during an auction in 2014. The hotel remains a major cultural place, welcoming exhibitions, filming (like Bye Bye Blondie in 2010) and literary events.

Protected features include facades, roofs, lobby, Borghèse and Saint-Germain lounges (old winter garden), as well as Lalique stairs and chandeliers. The brewery, redecorated by Sonia Rykiel in the 1970s, and the Joséphine bar (a tribute to Josephine Baker) perpetuate her legacy. His illustrious clients include Picasso, De Gaulle, Alexandra David-Néel, and Catherine Deneuve. The hotel also inspires the arts, as in Pascal Assouline's novel Lutetia (2005) or the song Au bar du Lutetia d'Eddy Mitchell (2003).

External links

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