page_title: Hôtel Raphael
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hôtel Raphael / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Rooftop at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris
context_page_description: Hôtel Raphael is a French luxury hotel situated on Avenue Kléber in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It is a five-star hotel and belongs to Les Hôtels Baverez. During the German occupation of Paris the hotel was the principle billet for senior officers of the SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht.
context_section_description: The hotel was constructed in 1925 through the initiative of Léonard Tauber and Constant Baverez, co-founders of the Regina (1900) and the Majestic (1908). It was constructed in the Golden Twenties era and designed by architect André Rousselot. Decorated in the Art Deco style, it was named as a tribute to the painter Raphael and the fine arts.
  The hotel has been a popular venue for well-known French and international artists, politicians and famous personalities. A number of films have been shot there, including Love in Paris (1996), Place Vendôme (1998), and the short Hotel Chevalier in 2007. Scenes from the hotel have also been used in Le Magnifique (1973), Gramps Is in the Resistance (Papy fait de la résistance, 1983), and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990).
  Hollywood actors such as Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, Roger Moore, Kirk Douglas, Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando were regular guests.
  After the German army occupied Paris in May 1940 the hotel became home to senior officers of the SS, Gestapo and the Wehrmacht, many of whom worked at the Majestic situated opposite the Raphael on avenue des Portugais. The Raphael was the site of many disputes between Nazi Party officials and senior staff officers of the Wehrmacht and the Militärbefehlshaber Frankreich. The famed German author Ernst Junger was resident at the Raphael as a Wehrmacht captain in 1941/42 and 1943/44. Junger wrote many of the entries for his war journals within its confines.
caption: Rooftop at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris in 2019.
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