"Shangri-La Paris to open next month" from South China Morning Post

"Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts yesterday announced that its Shangri-La Hotel in Paris will open on December 17, its first property in Europe. The hotel has been converted from a building built in 1896 as the private home for Napoleon Bonaparte's grandnephew, Prince Roland Bonaparte. The hotel offers 81 rooms, including 27 suites. The building is listed with the French heritage institution for preservation. The company took four years to restore the prince's Palais Iéna to its original splendour."