C%C3%A9sar Ritz
Csar Ritz was a Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously the Htel Ritz in Paris and The Ritz Hotel in London. His nickname was king of hoteliers, and hotelier to kings, and it is from his name and that of his hotels that the term ritzy derives.
Ritz was born in the Swiss village of Niederwald, the youngest ofchildren in a poor peasant family. At the age of twelve he was sent as a boarder to the Jesuit college at Sion, and at fifteen, having shown only vaguely artistic leanings, was apprenticed as a sommelier at a hotel in Brig. While working there as an apprentice wine waiter he was dismissed by the patron of the hotel from his position, saying, Youll never make anything of yourself in the hotel business. It takes a special knack, a special flair, and its only right that I tell you the truthyou havent got it. He returned briefly to the Jesuits as a sacristan, then left to seek his fortune in Paris at the time of the 1867 Universal Exhibition.
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