The Bartender of the Ritz
Author: Филипп Коллен
Printhouse: KoLibri
Series: Documentary fiction
Age restrictions: 18+
Year of publication: 2025
ISBN: 9785389261587
Number of pages: 416
Size: 210х150х22 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 551 g
ID: 1708591
June 1940. The Germans enter Paris. A strict curfew is in effect everywhere, except at the grand Ritz Hotel. Eager to learn the art of living the French way, the hotel’s guests meet with the Parisian elite, while Frank Meyer, the world’s greatest bartender, works behind the bar.
Adaptation is a matter of survival. Frank Meyer proves to be a skilled diplomat, winning the favor of German officers. For four years, people from the Gestapo will drink to Coco Chanel, the terrible widow of Ritz or Sasha Guitry. Men and women, collaborators and resistance fighters, heroes and informers, will love each other, betray each other, and fight for the desired idea of the new world order.
Most of them do not know that Frank Meyer, an Austrian émigré and a veteran of the 1914 war, hides a secret. The bartender of the "Ritz" is Jewish.