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54<br />
HOTELS<br />
Saint James Paris<br />
Welcome to the club<br />
It would usually be kept quiet - its name<br />
only uttered among those in the know,<br />
almost in hushed tones. But the time has<br />
come to let one’s friends into the secret. A<br />
few refined hotels still exist in Paris. The<br />
Saint James is one of them.<br />
The first surprise: this English-style private<br />
club is also a hotel that opens its doors to<br />
visitors and to a few regular guests. The<br />
hotel is even a member of the Relais &<br />
Châteaux, which says a lot about the qua-<br />
lity of the service.<br />
Once inside, the surprises continue. Where<br />
are the heavy drapes and the chesterfields?<br />
Bernard Rapp used to let his audience try out<br />
a few tasty English dishes here. Nostalgia,<br />
however, is no longer the order of the day.<br />
Completely renovated under the management<br />
of the decorator Bambi Sloane, the<br />
grand, bourgeois, Napoleonic-style house<br />
which was built in 1892 on the edge of the
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