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"Known for its luxurious accommodations and bespoke service, the Hotel Louis XVI has been the most lauded boutique hotel in all of Paris for decades, attracting an international clientele of the rich and famous. Now, after four years of renovations and the death of its legendary and beloved manager, it is set to reopen its doors at last. An esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a number of new faces who...
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France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator,...
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
4) What she saw
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The storied Hotel Chevalier on Paris' ritzy Right Bank hosts celebrities, dignitaries, and, for one hour, Lana Gibson, an American woman who's escaped the monotony of her staid married life for a cultural jaunt to the City of Light. But when that curiosity leads her to the hotel's private elevator which serves only the ultra-elite penthouse Suite Imperial, she spies much more than plush carpets and gilt chandeliers: a young woman caught in the clutches...
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Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France. Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel's own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her war-time romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces...
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"Ludwik XVI, jeden z najsłynniejszych luksusowych hoteli w Paryżu, ponownie otwiera swe podwoje. Szacowni stali goście przybywają w towarzystwie nowych osób. Nikt spośród nich nie zapomni tej wizyty. Odnosząca sukcesy konsultantka artystyczna pojawia się w hotelu po raz pierwszy od czasu brutalnego rozwodu. Nie wie, że znajdzie tu nową miłość. Mężczyzna, który pragnie zakończyć swoje życie, ratuje życie kogoś innego. Pewna para...
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John Darnell mysteries volume 5
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Professor John Darnell is called to a lavish hotel in Paris to unravel a mystery.
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