HOTEL DE LONDRES

Overview

The hotel on the Piazza di Spagna (Marie: «place d'Espagne») in Rome where the family stays on arrival, from 3 January to 14 March 1876. They first take two ground-floor rooms and a fresh yellow salon: «On nous mène à l'hôtel de Londres, place d'Espagne, et nous occupons, au rez-de-chaussée, deux chambres et un salon jaune, tout frais, tout propre. Je suis fatiguée, triste. Je ne sais rien, je ne connais personne ici !» (051.0333). On 7 January they take a first-floor apartment in the same hotel «avec balcon sur la place d'Espagne», two bedrooms, salon, antechamber, study and two servants' rooms (051.0429). On 14 March they leave «à cause du mauvais air dans les chambres de maman et Dina» for the Hôtel de la Ville, via del Babuino (055.0702), a few days after the duchess Tricase Muliterno's family, who also lodged at the Londres.

In Marie's diary

• 1876-01-03 (051.0333) and 01-07 (051.0429): arrival and first-floor apartment.
• 1876-02-18 (054.0219): at the masked ball at the Capitol, in a dialogue with a stranger who says he knows who Marie is (054.0216-0220) the whispered answer is «Hôtel de Londres» (where the family lodges).
• 1876-02-21 (054.0352): at the Corso, a Neapolitan banker «qui loge à l'hôtel de Londres» throws the most flowers.
• 1876-03-14 (055.0702, 055.0703): they had gone from the second floor back to the ground floor before leaving; the Muliterno family, from Naples, settle at the Hôtel de la Ville.

See Rome.