FRANCE: THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO U.S. WRITER ERNEST HEMINGWAY BY RENAMING A BAR IN HIS HONOUR
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FRANCE: THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO U.S. WRITER ERNEST HEMINGWAY BY RENAMING A BAR IN HIS HONOUR
- Title: FRANCE: THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS PAYS TRIBUTE TO U.S. WRITER ERNEST HEMINGWAY BY RENAMING A BAR IN HIS HONOUR
- Date: 25th August 1994
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (AUGUST 25, 1994) 1. GV EXTERIOR HOTEL RITZ IN PLACE VENDOME (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. GV INTERIOR "HEMINGWAY" BAR 0.11 3. GVS BARMAN PREPARING DRINKS (2 SHOTS) 0.29 4. GV PEOPLE AT THE BAR DRINKING 0.32 5. GV BARMAN PREPARING COCKTAIL 0.42 6. GV PEOPLE DRINKING AT BAR 0.45 7. CU BARMAN POURING BLOODY MARY COCKTAIL 0.59 8. GV BUST OF UNITED STATES (U.S.) AUTHOR ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON BAR 1.02 9. CU LETTERS ADDRESSED TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON WALL BOARD (2 SHOTS) 1.07 10. GV VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS OF HEMINGWAY DISPLAYED ON WALL (4 SHOTS) 1.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 9th September 1994 13:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
- Reuters ID: LVA28IKTDHXJH60HZYH8N4IOUBFK
- Story Text: One of the most celebrated hotels in Paris, The Ritz, paid tribute to United States writer Ernest Hemingway on Thursday (August 25) by reopening a bar named in his honour.
This coincided with three days of celebrations in the city to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation during the World War Two.
Ernest Hemingway was a war correspondent in August 1944 and arrived in Paris ahead of General George Patton's 3rd Army, just as free French General Philippe Leclerc's tanks were rolling into the capital.
Hemingway, according to legend, made straight for his favourite watering hole at The Ritz, and marched into the bar ordering drinks for his fellow reporters, announcing he had "liberated" the bar.
The small bar, which is reopening after a two year closure, will serve the Bloody Mary cocktail, reputedly invented in the bar for Hemingway. The story goes that he asked the barman to concoct a drink his wife Mary Welsh would be unable to smell on his breath.
The barman suggested vodka mixed with tomato juice, lemon and paprika.
The barman later received a call from Hemingway exulting: "We've caught that bloody Mary" - and so the drink was named.
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