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"A novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue"--
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The director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II.
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"Nothing bad can happen at the Ritz; inside its gilded walls every woman looks beautiful, every man appears witty. Favored guests like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walk through its famous doors to be pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband, Claude. The Auzellos are the mistress and master of the Ritz, allowing the glamour and glitz to take their minds off their troubled marriage, and off the secrets that they keep from their guests -- and each other. Until June 1940, when the German army sweeps into Paris, setting up headquarters at the Ritz. Suddenly, with the likes of Hermann Goring moving into suites once occupied by royalty, Blanche and Claude must navigate a terrifying new reality. One that entails even more secrets and lies. One that may destroy the tempestuous marriage between this beautiful, reckless American and her very proper Frenchman. For in order to survive Blanche and Claude must spin a web of deceit that ens
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz. There, under a roof legendary for its unprecedented luxury and for its fabled residents--including Coco Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cole Porter, Hemingway, Balanchine, Doris Duke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now Hermann Göring--the Nazis rule over a paralyzed city. But two residents of the Ritz refuse to be defeated: its director, Claude Auzello, and his beautiful American actress wife, Blanche. They not only oversee the smooth workings of the hotel, but both Blanche and Claude throw themselves fearlessly into the dangerous and
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A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz. There, under a roof legendary for its unprecedented luxury and for its fabled residents--including Coco Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cole Porter, Hemingway, Balanchine, Doris Duke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now Hermann Göring--the Nazis rule over a paralyzed city. But two residents of the Ritz refuse to be defeated: its director, Claude Auzello, and his beautiful American actress wife, Blanche. They not only oversee the smooth workings of the hotel, but both Blanche and Claude throw themselves fearlessly into the dangerous and
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Госпожа отеля «Ритц» : [роман] / Мелани Бенджамин ; [перевод с английского Т. Ратькиной].
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Бенджамин, Мелани, 1962-.
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"Legendarnyĭ "Ritt͡s" - mesto, v kotorom vlastvui͡ut shik i roskoshʹ. V ego stenakh li͡ubai͡a zhenshchina chuvstvuet sebi͡a krasivoĭ i ėlegantnoĭ, a kazhdyĭ muzhchina stanovitsi͡a neotrazimym.Kheminguėĭ, Fit͡sdzheralʹd, Koko Shanelʹ i cheta Vindzor - znamenitye gosti, kotorykh prinimai͡ut blistatelʹnye suprugi Blansh i Klod Auzello. Kazhetsi͡a, chto zhiznʹ ėtoĭ pary - prazdnik, kotoroĭ nikogda ne zakonchitsi͡a, no ii͡unʹ 1940 goda prinosit strashnye peremeny i novykh postoi͡alʹt͡sev... "Ritt͡s" - bessmennyĭ simvol parizhskogo loska, stanovitsi͡a shtab-kvartiroĭ nat͡sistov. Okkupirovannai͡a stolit͡sa zadykhaetsi͡a, teri͡aet byloĭ blesk, no Blansh i Klod dolzhny sokhrani͡atʹ lit͡so dazhe v takie vremena... Dli͡a togo chtoby vyzhitʹ i nanesti udar svoim nat͡sistskim "gosti͡am", im pridetsi͡a splesti setʹ obmana, kotorai͡a mozhet razrushitʹ ne tolʹko otelʹ, no i ikh sudʹby." --Publisher.
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