Concentrated in Paris (69), Saint-Tropez (11), Cannes (5), Porto-Vecchio (3), Bordeaux (2), Deauville (2).
ENTRIES197
InterContinental Bordeaux — Le Grand Hôtel · Bordeaux
House
Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle · Versailles
House
Person
LHL-P-281
Jean Nouvel
Person
LHL-P-283
Thierry Despont
Person
CONTROL38 of these entries have a recorded holder
Who owns and operates them, from the Capital section.
Al-Fayed family · owner since 1979 · owner
Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah Al Saud · owner from 2013 · owner
Brunei Investment Agency / Dorchester Collection · via Dorchester Collection · owner
Oetker family · owner since 1978 · owner
Brunei Investment Agency / Dorchester Collection · via Dorchester Collection · owner
Passédat family · three generations · owner
George V Eatertainment · Buddha-Bar Hotel Paris · owner
Floirat family / Groupe Floirat · owners since 1967 · owner
Arjun Waney · international rights · founder
Moma Group · owner · operator
Accor · owner from November 2022 · owner
LVMH · owner of both spa and hotel · owner
LVMH · owner · owner
Société des Bains de Mer · operator, Monte-Carlo Bay · owner
d'Ornano family / Sisley · owners · owner
Stéphane Courbit · owner · owner
Butler Industries · Pierre Hermé · investor
Yannick Alléno · author · author
Alain Ducasse · owner from 2005 · author
Moma Group · 75% · operator
Lapérouse Holding · controlling · owner
Butler Industries · via Moma Group · investor
Groupe Barrière · owner · owner
Moma Group · Kaspia group ⚑ — Maison de la Truffe · operator
de Colmont family · founding family · owner
Paris Society · operator from Nov 2023 · operator
Allouche family / Biologique Recherche · founders and owners · founder
George V Eatertainment · owner · owner
City of Paris · freeholder · landlord
Yannick Alléno · concessionaire · author
Troisgros family · owners · owner
MacElhone family · owners since 1923 · owner
Dolfi family · owner from 2017 · owner
Dolfi family · owner · owner
Jean-Louis Poiroux / Cinq Mondes · founder · founder
Groupe Barrière · owner · owner
LVMH · La Grande Épicerie · owner
LVMH · Le Bon Marché · owner
LVMH · La Samaritaine · owner
Floirat family / Groupe Floirat · Les Caves du Roy · owner
Granada plc · Forte Group from 1996 · investor
Public Investment Fund · 49% of the successor company · investor
CHRONOLOGY283 dated events
La Tour d'Argent dates its founding — the house's own claim, undocumented
The Marché des Enfants Rouges opens in the Marais — the oldest covered market in Paris
Louis XIV takes Charles Dalloyau from the Prince de Condé as officier de bouche
Procopio Cutò opens Le Procope — the first house in France to call itself a café
The building that becomes Le Yaca is raised in the old village of Saint-Tropez
Stohrer opens on rue Montorgueil
Nicolas Stohrer opens on rue Montorgueil, bringing pastry, wafers, gingerbread and sugar work under one roof
Louis XV commissions Ange-Jacques Gabriel to build twin palaces on the Place de la Concorde
Pierre-Jean Bernard opens Maison Bernard on the rue du Faubourg Montmartre
Lapérouse opens on the quai des Grands-Augustins
Victor Louis builds the Grand Hôtel opposite his own opera house at Bordeaux
Sulpice Debauve mixes Marie-Antoinette's medicine into cocoa and presses the first solid chocolate
Doyen begins trading on the Champs-Élysées; the pavilion built 1842 by Hittorff
Louis XVI is guillotined on the square in front of the future Crillon
Debauve opens his chocolate house on the Rive Gauche
Jean-Baptiste Dalloyau opens the first Maison de gastronomie and invents food to take away
A widowed descendant renames the shop À la Mère de Famille
Les Deux Magots begins as a novelty and fabric shop named after a play
Percier and Fontaine build the shop at 30 rue des Saints-Pères; royal warrant granted
Antoine-Étienne Dalloyau opens the first Parisian tea room
Jean-Jacques Ducasse buys vineyard parcels from Château Figeac; the land becomes Château Cheval Blanc
Charles-Augustin Meurice opens Le Meurice on the rue de Rivoli — the first Paris palace hotel
Aristide Boucicaut opens Le Bon Marché — fixed prices, low margins, goods on open display
Henri and Édouard Mariage found their tea house in Paris on 1 June
Napoleon III builds the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz for the Empress; it becomes the Hôtel du Palais in 1893
Queen Victoria stays at Le Meurice on her state visit to Paris
Le Grand Hôtel opens beside the Paris Opéra, built for the Second Empire
Louis-Ernest Ladurée opens on rue Royale; Jeanne Souchard later invents the tea room
Jules Jaluzot opens Printemps on the boulevard Haussmann
Hippolyte de Villemessant of Le Figaro builds the Villa Soleil at Cap d'Antibes as a retreat for writers
The Grand Hôtel du Cap is inaugurated in February with a fifteen-course dinner for a hundred guests
Ernest Cognacq opens La Samaritaine by the Pont Neuf
The original Procope closes; the premises pass through a club and a restaurant
Printemps installs an iron bridge between its buildings and two lifts
Maupassant describes the Sube in Sur l'eau, calling it the Hôtel du Bailli de Suffren
The Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme building rises on the rue de la Paix; it opens as a hotel in 2002
The first Orient Express leaves Paris for Constantinople on 4 October
Les Deux Magots becomes a café, keeping the name and the two Chinese figures
Auguste Fauchon opens his fine-foods shop on the place de la Madeleine
Sénéquier opens on the Quai Jean-Jaurès
Antoine Sella opens the Grand Hôtel du Cap as a hotel, having bought it in 1887
Le Voltaire opens on the quai, in the house where Voltaire died
Pera Palace opens in Constantinople for passengers off the Orient Express
The Saint James is built in Paris as a foundation for scholars; it becomes a hotel in 1986
Bader and Kahn open a 70 m² shop on the rue La Fayette
Ritz and Escoffier buy the Hôtel de Gramont and Hôtel Crozat on the Place Vendôme
Arthur Million expands Le Meurice; a stray greyhound becomes the house emblem
The Ritz Paris opens on the Place Vendôme
Louis Fouquet opens a coachman's bar at the Champs-Élysées; the hotel follows in 2006
Le Train Bleu opens inside the Gare de Lyon for the Exposition Universelle of 1900
La Guérite — the house's claim; other sources 1935
Antoine Rumpelmayer opens Angelina on the rue de Rivoli
The Société du Louvre buys the Crillon mansion from the Polignac heirs to make it a hotel
Les Crayères is built at Reims for the Pommery family; it opens as a hotel in 1983
César Ritz registers the Ritz name as a brand in Paris and London
The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat opens on its own peninsula
The Hôtel Majestic opens on the avenue Kléber; it reopens as The Peninsula Paris in 2014
The Hôtel de Crillon opens on 11 March, converted by Walter-André Destailleur
The Hôtel Royal opens at Évian for the Empress of France
The Hôtel Royal opens at Évian above the lake
The Lutetia opens on the boulevard Raspail, built by the Bon Marché for its suppliers
Albert Keller forms the Ritz-Carlton Investing Company, franchising the name in the United States
The New York Bar opens at 5 rue Daunou on Thanksgiving Day, its fittings shipped from Manhattan
Le Normandy opens at Deauville, built as a Norman manor in half-timber
François André takes the Deauville casino; the Barrière group grows from it
Benoît opens in Paris
The Carlton opens on the Croisette at Cannes
Le Negresco opens on the Promenade des Anglais, built by Henri Negresco
The Hôtel Plaza Athénée opens on the avenue Montaigne, days after the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
The Eden Roc pavilion is built 400 yards from the Grand Hôtel du Cap
Germain Passédat acquires Le Petit Nice at the Anse de Maldormé, Marseille
Picasso holds his wedding banquet at Le Meurice
The international delegations draft the Covenant of the League of Nations in the Crillon's salons
Paul Roux, a farmer's son, opens the café-bar Chez Robinson at Saint-Paul-de-Vence
The Cambon bar opens at the Ritz Paris; women are made to wait outside in the Dog House
The Ritz Paris bar is opened by Frank Meier; it is renamed for Hemingway in 1994
Hippolyte Jammet buys the Castellane mansion on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Harry MacElhone buys the bar and gives it his name
La Grande Épicerie opens within Le Bon Marché
Le Bristol opens in April, named for the 4th Earl of Bristol
The Majestic opens at Cannes
Hemingway names Harry's in The Sun Also Rises
Jean and Madeleine Carette open their tea room on the place du Trocadéro
Caviar Kaspia opens at 17 place de la Madeleine
The Hôtel George V opens on its avenue, financed by Joel Hillman at $31m
Le Royal Monceau opens on the avenue Hoche
Emmanuel Martinez opens the Hôtel Martinez on the Croisette
The George V charters flights to London, Madrid and Berlin on its own three-seat Farman
Pierre Desfontaines joins two macaron shells with ganache at Ladurée
Jean-Baptiste and Marie Troisgros open the Hôtel des Platanes in Roanne
La Voile d'Or opens at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
François Dupré buys the George V after Hillman loses it to his lenders
The Hôtel de Paris opens at the village entrance — the first luxury hotel in Saint-Tropez
Carpentras truffle brokers open Maison de la Truffe on the place de la Madeleine
Paul and Baptistine Roux turn Le Robinson into a three-room inn and rename it La Colombe d'Or
Roux hangs the sign: lodging here for man, horse or painter — artists begin paying in pictures
Lapérouse takes three Michelin stars, held until 1968
Les Deux Magots founds its literary prize
Michel Guérard is born in Vétheuil on 27 March
Fitzgerald opens Tender Is the Night with the Hôtel du Cap, as the Hôtel des Étrangers
The Ritz manager's American wife stages a sit-in and the Cambon bar admits women
Château Saint-Martin opens above Vence in a twelfth-century Templar commandery
La Résidence de la Pinède begins operating on the Baie des Canoubiers
The south becomes the free zone; artists and writers move to the coast and the Colombe d'Or becomes their meeting place
Eisenhower is housed at the George V during the Liberation of Paris
Raymond Thuilier takes the Oustau de Baumanière at Les Baux-de-Provence
Yves Montand and Simone Signoret meet at the Colombe d'Or
Cap Estel opens on its own peninsula at Èze-sur-Mer
Charles Forte is principal caterer at the Festival of Britain, then takes London Airport
Lucien Barrière takes the family casino business after François André
Rudolf-August Oetker buys the Brenners Park-Hotel at Baden-Baden
La Chèvre d'Or opens at Èze in the medieval village above the sea
Paul Roux lies dying; Titine tells Picasso the house owns no work of his and returns with three paintings
La Ponche opens at Saint-Tropez in the fishermen's quarter
The Taittinger family acquires the Hôtel de Crillon
Cheval Blanc is classified Premier Grand Cru Classé A in the first Saint-Émilion classification
Marcel and Nelly Tilloy found Les Relais de Campagne on 12 May at Le Chapon Fin, Thoissey, with eight houses
Charles Forte buys the Café Royal
Jacques Courtin-Clarins opens an institute at 35 rue Tronchet — a spa that became a cosmetics house
Dalloyau creates the gâteau Opéra
Club 55 begins feeding the cast of Et Dieu… créa la femme at Pampelonne
Le Girelier opens on the port at Saint-Tropez
Troisgros takes its first Michelin star
Jeanne Augier inherits the Negresco and holds it for sixty-two years
Gaston Lenôtre buys a small bakery in the 16th arrondissement
Harry MacElhone dies; most of the bar's cocktail claims date from after this
Michel Guérard receives the title Meilleur Ouvrier de France in pastry
Charles Forte opens Britain's first full motorway service station at Newport Pagnell
Jean-Prosper Gay-Para hears of Byblos in Beirut and resolves to build one at Saint-Tropez
The Beatles stay at the George V during their Paris Olympia run and write in a suite with a piano
Sofitel opens its first hotel at Strasbourg
Construction begins on the Byblos in a Phoenician-Tropezian style
The Capezzone family opens their first Corsican house
Guérard takes over and renames Le Pot-au-Feu at Asnières-sur-Seine
The Byblos is inaugurated on 27 May with Bardot and Mireille Darc among 700 guests
Gay-Para sells the Byblos to Sylvain Floirat in September, months after opening
Jocelyne and Jean-Louis Sibuet open their first house at Megève
Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson open the first Novotel at Lille
Les Caves du Roy opens in July
Le Pot-au-Feu receives its first Michelin star
French radicals raid Fauchon and distribute its foie gras to the poor
Troisgros takes three stars — held unbroken ever since
Guérard creates the salade gourmande, an early expression of his lighter cuisine
The Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa opens in Corsica under the Canarelli family
Mick and Bianca Jagger marry at the Byblos
Lenôtre opens his cooking school at Plaisir
Le Pot-au-Feu receives a second Michelin star
Michel and Christine Guérard open Les Prés d'Eugénie at Eugénie-les-Bains
Guérard moves to Eugénie-les-Bains; the property takes the name Les Prés d’Eugénie and the restaurant receives one Michelin star
Les Prés d’Eugénie receives a second star; Grande Cuisine Minceur is formalised in the thermal setting
Charles Ritz dies; his widow Monique takes the Ritz Paris
The d'Ornano family take over the house that becomes Sisley
Guérard appears on the cover of Time on 9 February and publishes La Grande Cuisine Minceur
Les Prés d’Eugénie receives three Michelin stars
Le Petit Nice takes its first Michelin star
The Oetker family buys Le Bristol
Le Palace opens on 1 March with Grace Jones singing La Vie en Rose
Roland Barthes reviews Le Palace for Vogue Hommes as a total art
Les Bains Douches opens in the 1885 Guerbois baths, interiors by Philippe Starck
The Ritz family sells the Ritz Paris to Mohamed Al-Fayed and his brothers
Pierre-Yves Rochon opens his Paris studio
Georg Rafael forms Rafael Hotels after leaving Regent
Fabrice Emaer dies; Le Palace begins changing hands
Château de la Messardière opens above Saint-Tropez
Mariage Frères opens its first tea room, 132 years after founding
Ponant is founded in Nantes by officers of the French merchant marine
Jean-Paul Hévin opens Le Petit Boulé on the avenue de la Motte-Picquet
Villa Gallici opens at Aix-en-Provence
Esprit de France forms around historic French buildings
Jean-Noël Marcellesi begins the Corsican hospitality developments
Auberge de La Ferme aux Grives opens in a restored farmhouse on the estate
The Prix de Flore is founded by Frédéric Beigbeder
The VIP Room opens at Saint-Tropez
Jean-Louis Costes opens Hôtel Costes on the rue Saint-Honoré, interiors by Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia designs the interiors of Hôtel Costes
Prince Alwaleed buys the George V from the Granada Group for a reported $178m
Rocco Forte founds RF Hotels after the Granada takeover of Forte Group
Le Palace closes as a nightclub
Buddha-Bar opens on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré — Raymond Vișan with Claude Challe
Le Meurice joins what becomes the Dorchester Collection
François Delahaye becomes general manager of the Plaza Athénée
Benjamin Patou founds Moma Group
Bernard Arnault and Baron Albert Frère buy Château Cheval Blanc after 166 years in one family
Pierre Hermé and Charles Znaty found Maison Pierre Hermé Paris; the first shop opens in Tokyo
Bâoli opens at the Port Canto in Cannes
Les Sources de Caudalie opens at Château Smith Haut Lafitte — vinotherapy becomes a spa category
The George V reopens on 18 December under Four Seasons after a reported $125m rebuild
Didier Le Calvez reopens the George V for Four Seasons
Buddha-Bar I released in October, compiled by Claude Challe
Paul Canarelli opens Domaine de Murtoli on 2,500 hectares of southern Corsica
Étienne Dolfi, the shop's own supplier, takes over À la Mère de Famille
Cinq Mondes is founded in Paris on treatments gathered from five continents
Robuchon opens L'Atelier in Tokyo — the counter as fine dining
Casadelmar opens at Porto-Vecchio to a design by Jean-François Bodin
La Bastide de Gordes opens in the Luberon village
Alain Ducasse buys Benoît and keeps it a bistro
The Hôtel du Cap accepts credit cards for the first time; televisions follow in 2012
Cheval Blanc opens its first Maison at Courchevel
LVMH opens a hotel at Courchevel and names it after the winery — Cheval Blanc; its restaurant is called 1947, after the château's most famous vintage
Franka Holtmann becomes the first woman to run Le Meurice
La Petite Maison opens in London, taking the Niçoise model outward
Accor takes MGallery to market as a collection of character hotels
Serge Trigano and Philippe Starck open the first Mama Shelter in Paris
Guerlain Spa opens, taking a perfume house into hotel treatment rooms
Le Palace reopens as a theatre
Gérald Passédat takes the third star, held since
Givenchy Spa opens at La Réserve Ramatuelle
Stéphane Courbit's LOV Group takes control of Lucien Barrière
Carette opens on the place des Vosges, interiors by Hubert de Givenchy
Les Bains Douches closes
Shangri-La opens in Prince Roland Bonaparte's Paris residence
Michel Reybier opens La Réserve at Ramatuelle to a design by Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Cédric Grolet joins Le Meurice; Ducasse makes him executive pastry chef two years later
Suzanne and Philippe Capezzone open K2 Altitude at Courchevel
Stéphane Courbit opens the first Airelles house at Courchevel
Christian de Portzamparc's cellar opens at Cheval Blanc, shaped like a double-hulled boat, with 52 concrete vats
The Experimental Group opens its first hotel, Grand Pigalle in Paris
Accor launches Sofitel Legend for its historic houses
Silencio opens in the former printing works of L'Aurore, designed by David Lynch
Buddha-Bar Hotel opens in Paris, a nightlife brand turned hotel
Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah buys the Crillon, reportedly for €250m, and closes it
Alain Ducasse takes charge of all dining at Le Meurice
Alain Ducasse opens the Manufacture de Chocolat on the rue de la Roquette
U Spa opens at the Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic in Cannes
La Plage Casadelmar opens on the Corsican shore
Institut de Cuisine Michel Guérard and Café Mère Poule open
Yannick Alléno takes the Pavillon Ledoyen concession
Domaine de Fontenille opens at Lauris in a seventeenth-century Luberon estate
Domaine de Fontenille opens at Lauris in the Luberon
Baccarat opens its first hotel on West 53rd Street, hung with its own crystal
Paddy McKillen's Maybourne passes to Qatari ownership after a long dispute
Kirill Pisarev develops the Sea Breeze resort on the Caspian
Café Dior opens in Seoul, in the House of Dior building by Christian de Portzamparc
Dior Spa opens at the Plaza Athénée
Silvio Denz opens Villa René Lalique in Alsace, beside the glassworks
Baccarat Residences launch in New York
Domaine des Etangs opens in Charente, a medieval estate of a thousand hectares
Jean-Michel Lavorel begins assembling the Lavorel hotel group
Emmanuel Sauvage forms the Evok Collection in Paris
Nolinski opens on the avenue de l'Opéra
Maison de la Truffe opens its first atelier inside Galeries Lafayette Gourmet
Spa Chanel au Ritz opens — the world's first and only
The Crillon reopens after a four-year, €250m restoration, operated by Rosewood
Villa La Coste opens in the Provençal art estate
The Dolfi family buy Stohrer
Maison Troisgros moves to a purpose-built house at Ouches
Les Prés d’Eugénie receives the French Palace distinction; Christine Guérard dies
Cheval Blanc Residences launch
H8 Collection forms from a group of Italian houses
The Pariente family opens Le Coucou at Méribel
Fauchon opens L'Hôtel on the Place de la Madeleine, above its own shop
Moma Group takes 75% of Lapérouse in March, with Antoine Arnault as investor
Oleg Tinkov opens La Datcha at Courchevel
Grolet named World's Best Pastry Chef at the 50 Best and opens La Pâtisserie du Meurice
Oleg Tinkov opens the first La Datcha at Courchevel
Royal Champagne opens above Épernay among the vineyards
Cheval Blanc takes over La Résidence de la Pinède
Alain Ducasse and the Pariente family open Lily of the Valley at Gigaro
LVMH completes the acquisition of Belmond on 17 April
Alain Ducasse opens Pavyllon, a counter-service dining room at the Plaza Athénée
Pavillon Ledoyen reaches six stars — the most Michelin-starred independent house in the world
Madame Rêve opens in the former central post office of Paris
Beaumier is formed from a group of French Alpine and Provençal houses
Accor launches Emblems Collection
Karl Lagerfeld Hotels announces its first house in Macau, after the designer's death
Café Lapérouse opens at the Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde
Airelles opens Le Grand Contrôle inside the grounds of Versailles
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley opens in March — his first house outside Paris
Accor buys Paris Society outright on ~€250m of revenue
Biologique Recherche replaces Chanel at the Ritz Club
Régine Zylberberg dies
Mohamed Al-Fayed dies on 30 August
Core: moves to 711 Fifth Avenue in September — 60,000 sq ft, lobby by Peter Marino
Paris Society takes over the operation of Maxim's in November
La Tour d'Argent reopens on 29 August after a 17-month renovation
Café Lapérouse opens at Raffles London, The OWO ⚑ since closed
Le Grand Tour begins running through France
Orient Express announces Silenseas, to be the largest sailing ship in the world
De Gourcuff and Paris Society convicted over the Longchamp licence; suspended sentence, February
Michel Guérard dies at Eugénie-les-Bains on 18 August; the death is announced on 19 August
Orient Express La Dolce Vita begins running on Italian lines
Patrice de Colmont dies on 11 October, aged 77
L’Orangerie receives a Michelin star, widening the estate’s starred dining system
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.