Fast facts from The Peninsula Paris

The Paris Peace Accords, which ended US military involvement in the Vietnam War, were negotiated by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho here in 1973

Five of the 20th century’s greatest artists had dinner together here in 1922: writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso, choreographer Sergei Diaghilev and composer Igor Stravinsky

The four-year renovation required 40,000 sheets of gold leaf, 1,000 individual pieces of wood, handmade “fish scale” slate roof tiles and 20 stonemasons to work on the façade

Schwartz and Meurer, the company that constructed the Eiffel Tower, created the hotel’s ornamental staircase

The hotel’s car fleet includes a 1934 Rolls-royce Phantom II, a 2014 RollsRoyce Phantom EWB, two Mini Cooper S Clubmans and 10 BMW 7-Series limousines

In-room controls, including the lights, awnings, heating and TV, are operated by two tablets that work in 11 different languages