Start the Ritz Bar, August 25, 1944 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), the ego-personality, talent and enthusiasm that is initiated by the American novelist himself, the historical truth more legend.
However, there is - in addition to his dislike of the Nazis - which without doubt, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, his commitment to the palace, where he may have stayed many times. "When I dream of a life after death, at the Ritz in Paris, the action is always," he says.
Hemingway participated in D-Day on June 6, 22 Infantry Division in American Regiment -4. War correspondent - ie civil and military - the "Collier", said the following in June and July, American troops returned to Paris in support of the French 2nd Armored Division.
The writer suspects nothing. Especially not myself. Rambouillet In mid-August, constantly reminded that "only spoke of it, that the first American in Paris will be and the liberation of the Ritz." He succeeded in his name and with the support of the General Staff of the Army (Patton ordered), make an appointment with General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Armored Division. However want to ask men to go to Paris for the immediate release of your favorite bar palace.
General welcomes the cold. The incredibly long and forgotten writers.
25, game uniforms, weapons in hand and accompanied by a resistance group, but sometimes the jeep Place Vendome. He broke into the palace, and he said: "Personally liberate" Ritz Bar, seized in 1940 attacked the Nazis and sometimes occupied by German officials, including Goering and Goebbels.
The hotel manager, Claude Auzello, come on. Hemingway and asked: "Where are the Germans just let the Ritz." "Lord, they have a long time to come. Weapons can not be left."
Hemingway will remain in the jeep back to the bar where he had left the historical list of 51 dry martini!
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He said his brother Leicester Hemingway, the writers of the time to search the basement of the hotel, with his people, still had "the murder of two prisoners and the camp brandy."
Examination, roofs, which are nothing more than the leaves shot from the upper floors. In fact, Hemingway the German support "shabby" as he writes, the room he shared with Mary of Wales, whom she married in 1946.
"He wore the uniform and the guidelines of the body (much), which was usually" have to tell you, Colin Peter Field, barman at the Ritz.
John Marin, Voice of Resistance in London and the Managing Director for 21 years, AFP, Hemingway met in Rambouillet, in August. Draw a portrait of his brutal memories: he at his "betrayal", always laughs the best paper and make up stories.
Hemingway remains nostalgic about this period of his life. He writes that Marlene Dietrich: "I love my life, women, the Spanish Republic and the fourth league."
"Small Bar" Ritz sits on the counter of his name from the 1994 bronze statue of his likeness. The writer, then, the company broke 20s discovered the Ritz-rich companion, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, before experiencing success in the "Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms".
The founder of the castle, César Ritz, had a dream that the great people of this world feel at home. The plot has to have been one of the first in the world to have a bathroom in each room, in an old villa overlooking one of the most beautiful places in Paris opened in 1889.
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