2007-02-22 06:32:49 · 5 answers · asked by kitty_25 1 in Travel ➔ France ➔ Other - France
Hôtel de Ville is the oldest. It opened 500 years before the Hotel Scribe.
Reply: while it does mean town hall, almost every hotel de ville in every village, town, or city in France was a place of lodging. The British stole the word to apply to what we in the english speaking world call hotels. regardless of the name it is still one of the oldest, if not oldest "hotels" on record in Paris.
2007-02-22 15:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by ninecoronas2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure but I'll contribute the fact that the Hotel Scribe at 1, rue Scribe in the 9th arr, Paris was built in 1860 which makes it older than the Ritz that opened in 1898.
I suspect that the first hotel in France was probably some nameless place along one of the Roman roads when France was still Gallia and part of the Roman empire.
NB: The answer below mentions the Hotel de Ville. That means "City hall" in French rather than a hotel in the English language sense of the word.
2007-02-22 15:09:22 · answer #2 · answered by Rillifane 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-23 07:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it was some cave near Lascaux, where hunters could spend the night before going back to their tribe.
2007-02-23 02:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably some cave in the alps with animals painted on the walls
2007-02-22 23:52:11 · answer #5 · answered by Tim'sSO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋