Hotel Fouquet's Barrière

by Staff -- Hotels, 6/1/2007

By the Numbers

1899: The year Le Fouquet’s restaurant opened. An ambitious Parisian café owner, Louis Fouquet (the “t” is not silent) saw his chance to create a glamorous restaurant on the Champs Elysées. If Conde Nast Traveler had had a “hot list,” Le Fouquet’s would have earned a mention just a few years after opening. It became the place to see and be seen for more than a century.

1990: The year Le Fouquet’s earned Paris’s coveted “landmark status.”

1998: The year Dominique Desseigne, chairman of the board of Lucien Barrière Group acquired the legendary restaurant.

Eight years: The time it took to acquire, restore, convert and combine four Belle Epoque buildings, a newer structure and the historic restaurant into Paris’ newest palace hotel, Le Fouquet’s Barrière.

US500,000,000: The amount if took to implement the transformation/conversion
November 2, 2006: The hotel’s opening date.

107: The total of its 65 rooms and 42 suites

4,000: The number of ornate silver branches that adorn the hotel’s interior open air terrace and garden.

Seven: The number of palace hotels in Paris. In addition to Le Fouquet’s Barrière, they are: the Bristol; the Crillon; the Four Seasons Georges V, the Meurice, the Ritz and the Plaza Athenée.