Grand Hotel Paris 1895 Michelin Greet the day with a

Greet the day with a smile

Popular with families it had a bar on the third floor with great views of the Bay

and offered only the best champagne and foods

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Grand Hotel Paris 1895 Michelin Greet the day with aA banquet for the cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures on Saturday 8 June 1895. Baron Hausmann commissioned the Pereire brothers, powerful bankers who heavily financed the reconstruction of Paris, to build a luxurious new hotel. Designed by the architect Alfred Armand, the Grand Hotel du Louvre was opened in 1855, just in time for the International Exhibition staged in Paris that year. It was the first luxury hotel in France and the first 'Grand