Royal Monceau

The Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris is a luxury hotel located at 37 avenue Hoche, 8th arrondissement, Paris, France. The hotel has 149 rooms with 61 suites and 3 luxury apartments that have been recently refurbished by the designer Philippe Starck. One of its restaurants has a Michelin star : "Il Carpaccio" serves Italian cuisine for lunch and dinner only and "Le Bar Long" serves lighter dishes all day from 8am to 2am with also a full bar available. Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and le Royal Monceau partnered and opened a Japanese restaurant, "Matsuhisa".

Notable guests have included Dwight David Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Robert De Niro, Charles Aznavour, Michel Polnareff, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and Celine Dion.

The hotel was originally designed by architect Louis Duhayon, and opened in 1928. Le Royal Monceau was founded by Pierre Bermond and André Junot who at the time owned 30% of French luxury hotels like the Miramar in Cannes and Biarritz, the Carlton in Paris, the hotels in Evian and the California in Paris. From its opening it became the meeting point of many artists and celebrities, such as Maurice Chevalier, Walt Disney, Coco Chanel, Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Joseph Kessel and contemporary stars such as Michel Polnareff and Robert De Niro.

In 1947, Ho Chi Minh stayed there for seven weeks during the Fontainebleau conference that established the new relationship between France and Vietnam. In May 1948 the negotiations that led to the signature of the Israeli Declaration of Independence by David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir took place in its lounges.

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