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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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As the shadow of World War II fell over Paris, the luxurious Hotel Lutetia was transformed by the patrons that stayed within its walls. Jane Rogoyska shares their stories in this gripping narrative, tied together by a single cultural landmark.
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From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II artists, intellectuals, and refugees, and one famed Paris hotel.
Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians, and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too—from the years bef...