[2] The palace hotel's interior was done in the Art Nouveau style, designed by artists including the painters Henri Martin and Ernest Laurent and the sculptor Edgar-Henri Boutry.

[3] Cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle designed the canopies at the north and south entrances of the hotel and did the paneling in the lounges.

[4] Notably, it housed department IV led by Klaus Barbie, who was in charge of eliminating the resistance.

The construction of the Centre d'échanges de Perrache [fr] in the 1970s resulted in the hotel becoming situated between a highway and the railway line, thus damaging its image.

[1] The "groupe Société des Hôtels de Bourgogne" bought the hotel in August 1986 and restored it from 1987 to 1989.