Marquet, Georges
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Belgian Georges Marquet was the owner of many fine hotels and the president of Les Grands Hotels Europeens.
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Wachtveitl - Why don’t you do some work ?
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When businessmen take over an enterprise as promising as the Oriental Hotel one would imagine that facts and figures are all important.
Murphy, William Lawrence
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We owe the invention of the Hideawy Bed to inventor William Lawrence Murphy
Adelina Patti at Hotels
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In November 1889 the celebrated coloratura soprano, Adelina Patti, the most popular and highest-paid singer of her day, took up residence at The Savoy of theatre impressario Richard D’Oyly Carte, ...
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