Les Hôtels Baverez

Les Hôtels Baverez is a French luxury hotel group established by the Baverez family in 1900.

Les Hôtels Baverez

Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Growth
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1900; 125 years ago (1900) in Paris, France
Founders	Léonard Tauber Constant Baverez
Headquarters	Paris , France
Key people	Françoise Baverez (Chair) Véronique Valcke (Executive Director)
Subsidiaries	Hôtel Raphael Hôtel Regina Majestic Hôtel-Spa
Website	leshotelsbaverez.com

The company owns and operates three historic five-star properties in the Paris: Hôtel Régina Louvre, Hôtel Raphael, and Majestic Hôtel-Spa.

History

Since 1900, Les Hôtels Baverez has remained under the management of the same family. The company operates three five-star establishments in Paris: Hôtel Regina (opened in 1900), Hôtel Majestic (1908), and Hôtel Raphael (1925). The group was founded by Constant Baverez and Léonard Tauber.^[1][2]

Paul Baverez, the son of Constant Baverez, and his daughter, Françoise Beauvais (née Baverez), have also managed the group. Françoise serves as chair of the group's board of directors as of June 2025^[update]. Françoise's daughter, Véronique Valcke, was the executive director from 2010-2013.^[3] Françoise was awarded the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour in 2014.^[4]

Hôtel Regina

Main article: Hôtel Regina

Inaugurated in 1900^[5] for the World's Fair in Paris, Hôtel Regina is situated on the Place des Pyramides, which takes its name from Napoleon’s victory in Egypt in 1798. The hotel occupies a Second Empire era building. Léonard Tauber and his associate Constant Baverez worked on the building from 1898 to 1900. The Regina was named after Queen Victoria, symbolizing the Entente Cordiale between the French and the British.^[6]

The hotel's first renovation phase was completed in the summer of 2014, and the second phase, which started in October 2014, was inaugurated on 29 September 2015. The renovation costs were estimated at 17 million euros.^[7] In November 2014, Mr. Piazzi was appointed as the new director. In August 2015, the hotel received its fifth star from Atout France agency.^[8]

Majestic Hôtel-Spa

Main article: Majestic Hôtel-Spa

The Majestic Hôtel-Spa is located at 30 rue La Pérouse in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.^[9] The original Hôtel Majestic was built by Léonard Tauber and opened in 1908 as the second hotel of what is now the Baverez group. It was situated on the opposite side of rue La Perouse in the building now known as The Peninsula Paris Hotel. That building was purchased by the French government in 1936 to serve as offices for the Ministry of War.^[10]

The 30 rue La Pérouse building opened in February 2010 as Hôtel Majestic Villa. Later, the name was changed to Majestic Hôtel-Spa.^{[citation needed]}

Hôtel Raphaël

Main article: Hôtel Raphael

Hôtel Raphael is a 5-star hotel^[11] in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It was built in 1925 by Léonard Tauber and Constant Baverez, based on the plans of architect André Rousse lot. The hotel features Art-Deco-style decorations and was named after the painter Raphael.

Hollywood actors such as Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, Roger Moore, Kirk Douglas, Gary Cooper, and Marlon Brando were regular guests. During the German occupation of Paris, the hotel was the principal billet for senior officers of the SS, Gestapo, and Wehrmacht. The German author Ernst Jünger was a resident at the Raphael and wrote many of the entries for his war journals within its confines.^{[citation needed]}