If you're looking for luxury and the royal treatment when you're visiting the city of love - Paris, that is - then Hotel Fouquet's Barrière is your premier luxury hotel. 

Located at the corner of the Champs Elysées and Avenue Georges V, Hotel Fouquet's Barrière opened its doors November 2006.  It's the first five-star hotel to open in Paris in almost 80 years since the George V that was open in 1928. 

End of the century French palace-style luxury accommodations in Paris

Hotel Fouquet's Barrière is exceptionally grand - being modeled and designed in a classic French palace style.  A unique combination of modern-chic and fin-de-siécle grandeur, Fouquet's was designed by architect Edouard François in a traditional Paris "Haussmann" style with Jacques Garcia overseeing the interior design. 

Decadent materials of velvet, mahogany, marble, silk and embroidered leather fuse beautifully with high tech digital equipment - wall mirrors that amazingly turn into televisions - and a special emphasis is put on service with personal butlers being assigned to each guest upon arrival. 

Guests at Hotel Fouquet's Barrière will receive gifts fit for royalty

Beginning in 2009 a Fuji apple bearing the Hotel Fouquet's Barrière emblem will be given to all guests staying at the hotel. A paper stencil is used to mark the fruit before it is ripe.  During maturity the sunlight naturally reddens the apple everywhere except under the logo.

Offering a gift of fruit marked with royal emblems or coat of arms is an ancient practice that is historically reserved only for royalty.  Tsar Nicolas II, Queen Victoria and Kaiser William II all had apples and peaches stamped with their "coat of arms." 

In the 17th century this procedure gained particular acclaim, when, in an effort to get the king to eat more fruit, King Louis XIV's superintendent offered him apples bearing the royal emblem of France.

To learn more or to book your luxurious stay at Fouquet's Barrière, please visit www.fouquets-barriere.com.

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