European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Glamorous Ritz hotel reopening cozy bar that Hemingway liberated by Suzy Patterson the associated Pressa though papa Hemingway will be there in spirit Only the bartender will be dispensing spirits in appropriate amounts when the Ritz hotel in Paris reopens the watering Hole the author Warrior famously nostalgic bar flies will be Happy the pocket sized bar which Ernest Hemingway stormed for a drink when the nazis surrendered the City will be revived this week after a two year dry spell. The liberation of what is now called Hemingway a is a favorite Story at the Ritz. According to contemporary accounts the writer covering the War for Collier s Magazine pulled up in a jeep with col. David Bruce later . Ambassador to Paris and some soldiers. Tradition has it that Hemingway bounded up to the roof fired off a round bringing Down nothing More than a clothesline full of sheets. Bruce wrote in his diary that Hemingway ordered 50 martinis All around though they weren t very Good As the bartender had after a Superb dinner Hemingway raged at the Bill because of a Vichy government tax on it millions to defend France thousands to Honor your nation but not one Sou in tribute to the Ritz has had several bars through the years since its founding in 1898, but Hemingway spent most of his drinking hours in the tiny one. A discreet cozy room it was also known As Berlin s bar for the congenial bartender who presided Over drinks and sometimes drunks from 1952 to 1975. The in crowd preferred Bertin s territory to the larger Glitzner bar across the Hall. The Ritz was glad to celebrate after. Hemingway marched in said Claude Roulet the hotel s current informal during the War years part of the Ritz had been requisitioned by the German occupiers As the luxury officers rest and relaxation Haven. Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels regularly checked their arms and settled in at the hotel on the Swanky place vendome. The hotel s management under Claude Ruzello created a Clandestine min resistance transmitting news about the German officers through a system involving ploys like bogus food orders. Coco Chanel whose salons were just across the Rue Cambon stayed in her Ritz suite and became the Lover of a German general Hans Gunther von Dinklage known As though she was briefly arrested by free French troops at the liberation she talked herself out of trouble by using photograph of her Friend Winston Churchill and fled to Switzerland until she made her fashion comeback in 1954. After the War the Hemingway Bertin bar was a clubby place for businessmen writers and journalists but was closed two years ago because of noisy Road work and changes on the hotel s Rue Cambon Side. The reopening is expected to be More sedate than bombastic Hemingway s hard drinking style but 150 guests or More May show up to see the Little bar that cannot seat More than about 15. The decor is much the same quiet Oak panels leather chairs and High bar stools. The bartender this time will be Collin Field who knows All about dry martinis but will be concentrating on some new Ritz concoctions called literary names like Karen Blixen and Bradbury for Ray. We re making it a literary or writers bar said Roulet noting that literary lights from Graham Greene to Truman capote Jean Paul Sartre and of course f. Scott Fitzgerald have had a drink at the Ritz. Photographs of famous writers will adorn a Wall near the portrait Jid bust of Hemingway. Writers can have their mail addressed to the bar to be picked up from a special framed letterbox also displaying old notes from Chanel or an envelope to Proust Hemingway might Well fume at today s prices. The Ritz s dry Martini in 1945 Cost about the equivalent of a Dollar or less. Now it is unfashionable and not even on the drinks menu. But if you order one it will set you Back about $18. The Ritz hotel already Rich in Glamour legend and history is now reopening one of the Best known ban in Paris. It is a Small copy barroom taken Over by Ernest Hemingway at left in photo taken a few years before the liberation of Paris after the City was seized from the germans. The Days of glory then and 50 years later a no lf\\a/inf1 n re for in i n_4.a__._ _ .1 11 following Are some important dates in the liberation of Paris and in its 50th anniversary Celebration Beins held this week. Aug. 15,1944 police strike because of rumours germans will disarm them. Aug. 19 uprising begins. Resistant seize police Headquarters near notre Dame Cathedral build barricades throughout Paris. German tanks threaten to crush uprising. Cease fire reached. Aug. 20 Many resistant reject the truce an fighting resumes. Aug. 21 German reinforcements head for Paris. Aug. 22 Allied supreme commander Dwight Eisenhower responding to Charles de Gaulle s threat to go it alone with French forces agrees to Allied assault on Paris. Aug. 24 americans cover French forces who Are Given the Honor of liberating Paris. When French get bogged Down by German resistance and civilian welcomes . Forces Are ordered to Paris. Some French tanks reach City Hall before Midnight aug. 25 French and americans Battle their Way into Paris forcing German surrender. Aug. 26 de Gaulle leads procession Down champs Elysee to notre Dame despite sniper fire. Aug. 29 Eisenhower visits Paris. . Troops Marci Down champs Elyse is then resume fighting North of Paris. Events planned for this week thursday a nighttime procession follows one of the routes taken by the French 2nd army div. From the Porte d Orleans on the City s Southern Edge through the dance a. 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