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[[File:Jorge Luis Borges Hotel.jpg|thumb|[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] in L'Hôtel ([[Paris]], 1969)]]
'''L'Hôtel''' is a 5-star luxury [[hotel]] in [[Saint-Germain-des-Prés]], [[Paris]].
It was built in the 19th century and has had various names, '''Hôtel d’Allemagne''', then '''Hôtel d’Alsace''' (after the [[Franco-Prussian War]]), and was renamed L'Hôtel in 1963.
Address:13 Rue des Beaux Arts, 75006 Paris, France.
[[Oscar Wilde]] spent his last days there in 1900, when it was known as the Hôtel d'Alsace.
The hotel appears to have been run-down at the time, but Wilde remarked "I am dying beyond my means".<ref>Piers Letcher. ''Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France''. Bradt Travel Guides, 2003, {{p.|176}}.</ref> Other former residents include [[Marlon Brando]], actress and singer [[Mistinguett]], and the blind writer [[Jorge Luis Borges]], who said it seemed to have been "sculpted by a cabinet maker".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://travel.guardian.co.uk/shortbreaks/story/0,11335,1301798,00.html|title =Gilt trip | date = 2004-09-11| work = The Guardian | location=London | first=Kieran | last=Falconer | access-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref> The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's "[[The Happy Prince and Other Tales#"The Happy Prince"|The Happy Prince]]" into [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to die where the writer of his childhood had also died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rascunho.rpc.com.br/index.php?ras=secao.php&modelo=2&secao=25&lista=0&subsecao=0&ordem=983&semlimite=todos|title=Jornal Rascunho|publisher=|access-date=29 September 2014}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> (Borges actually died in [[Geneva]], however.)
==Gallery==
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L'Hotel bar in Paris - Stierch.jpg|Hotel bar
Oscar Wilde plaque, 13 rue des Beaux Arts, Paris 6.jpg|[[Oscar Wilde]]'s final address was at the dingy Hôtel d'Alsace (now known as L'Hôtel), in Paris
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
* Garcia, Jacques, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060319083338/http://www.pariscapitale.com/english/hotels/articles/lhotel/article.asp "L’Hôtel : the past revisited"]. ''Paris Capitale''
== External links ==
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