Located in the upmarket 8th arrondissement, a flat €41 cab ride from Orly, Le Bristol is close enough to the Élysée Palace to be a regular haunt of France’s ruling elite, the Sciences Po Alumni who run the country. More recent arrivals have included George Clooney, Julia Roberts and David Beckham, and earlier this month during Paris Fashion Week, Le Bristol was thronged with fashionistas including actress and model Lily Collins - who thanked the hotel on Instagram (where she has 28.5 million followers) for letting her “channel her inner Eloise”. American-born dancer and entertainer Josephine Baker was a regular visitor shortly before she died in 1975 she threw a party at the hotel for 250 of her closest friends, including Princess Grace, Sophia Loren and Mick Jagger. Since then, it’s seen a succession of famous guests. The palace was formerly home to the Comte de Castellane, and Jammet succeeded in turning it into one of the French capital’s most glamorous hotels. Whether or not Jammet was related to Michel and François Jammet, founders of legendary Dublin restaurant, Jammet’s, is not known, but he was clearly a man of vision.

Le Bristol, one of the most famous five-stars in Paris, was founded in 1925 by one Hippolyte Jammet, a grandson of Parisian restaurateurs.

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