Among the negotiators were Jacques Chirac, then the young Secretary of State of Local Affairs, and Georges Séguy, representative of the Confédération générale du travail.
Rejected by the base, the agreements did not immediately solve the social crisis and the strikes continued.
But three days later on 30 May, Charles de Gaulle, back in Paris after meeting with Jacques Massu in Baden-Baden, Germany, the previous day, was confronted by an enormous Gaullist counter-demonstration on Champs-Élysées.
He decided to dissolve the National Assembly and to call for elections on 30 June 1968.
The hotel, built in the late 18th century, formerly the Archbishop's Palace, was actually part of the Ministry of Labour since 1905.