‘Hotel Exile’ offers wartime Paris in a microcosm

Published August 2, 2026 5:15am ET



With its ornate facade resembling an ocean liner, gilded portholes, and fat cherubs hanging festoons of grapes, the Hotel Lutetia is known as the Left Bank’s grand hotel.

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