Hôtel Regina Louvre, hotel on the Place des Pyramides since 1900

The Hôtel Regina, a hotel on the Place des Pyramides facing the Louvre and the Tuileries, opened in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle. Léonard Tauber and Constant Baverez had planned it since 1898, the year the Hôtel Regina Paris company was founded.

The building stands on the site of the former royal stables of the Louvre, before Emmanuel Frémiet’s gilded statue of Joan of Arc. In 1903 Tauber entrusted the interiors to the architect Armand Sibien, who went on to design the Majestic. In 1918 the International Red Cross briefly made it its headquarters; under the Occupation, German officers took over the hotel.

The Baverez family still runs the house. Françoise Baverez succeeded her father at the head of the Regina and the Majestic in 1981, bought the Hôtel Raphael in 1985, and a major renovation created new spaces in 1989. Since the 1980s the lobby, its chandeliers and its revolving doors have appeared in many films, among them The Bourne Identity.

Beneath the arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement, the hotel has 120 rooms and suites, and its bar, the Club Lounge English Bar, opens onto the Place des Pyramides.