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The adjective particulier means "personal" or "private". The English word hotel developed a more specific meaning as a commercial building accommodating travellers; modern French also uses hôtel in this sense. For example, the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde was built as an hôtel particulier and is today a public hotel.
Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, also known as the Hôtel de Salm, 64 rue de Lille, Paris.. In French contexts, an hôtel particulier is a townhouse of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hôtel particulier was often free-standing, and by the 18th century it would ...
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An apartment hotel in Hammond, Indiana. An apartment hotel or aparthotel (also residential hotel, or extended-stay hotel) is a serviced apartment complex that uses a hotel-style booking system.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought Domino's Pizza and Pool Corp. stock last quarter. Buffett loves fast food and already owns distribution businesses, making the pair a natural fit.
Ellen DeGeneres shut down rumors her U.K. farmhouse flooded while celebrating her 20th anniversary with wife Portia de Rossi.. DeGeneres, 66, and de Rossi bought the home in England after ...
[3] [4] The publisher of Le Particulier is Le Particulier Editions SA, [5] which was also acquired by the Figaro Group on 18 May 2009. [6] The former publisher of the magazine was the Group Express-Expansion. [7] Le Particulier was published monthly [5] [7] before its frequency was switched to weekly basis. [8] The magazine has its headquarters ...
New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again. In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne ...