(Herunterladen) (Ksiazki) Mistress of the Ritz
By Melanie Benjamin
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.
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 welcomed and pampered by Blanche Auzello and her husband,
Claude, the hotel's director. 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,
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