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 | | These include Ernest Hemingway, for whom a bar in the hotel was named, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo plus couturier Coco Chanel who made the Ritz her home for more than thirty years. |
 | | The current building was designed by the architects Théodore Ballu and Pierre Deperthes, and replaced the earlier Hôtel de Ville on the same site that was burnt by the local population during the Paris Commune of 1871. |
 | | The building has been the scene of a number of notable events, including the declaration of the French Third Republic, and a speech by Charles de Gaulle on the 1944 Liberation of Paris. |
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