The property was then acquired by hotel magnate Leonard Tauber after a bidding war that involved the United States government and the King of Belgium.

[1][2] Tauber constructed the luxurious Hotel Majestic on the site, retaining Queen Isabella's bathroom accoutrements, including her marble bath, in the Presidential suite.

[7] In 1922 it was the site of a famous dinner hosted by Violet and Sydney Schiff and attended by Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso.

[4] It served as the headquarters of the German military high command in France (Militärbefehlshaber Frankreich)[8] from October 1940 to July 1944 during the occupation of Paris in World War II.

The Majestic became known as a centre of opposition to certain aspects of Adolf Hitler's policies, especially when Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel took charge of administering the Militärbefehlshaber Frankreich.

[9] On May 22, 1942, after the Wannsee Conference an exclusive presentation was made to the higher echelons of the German army at the Hotel Majestic by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust.

[12] On 20 July 1944, Stülpnagel's co-conspirator Claus von Stauffenberg made his assassination attempt on Hitler at the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia.

These events were witnessed by Walter Bargatzky, a high ranking German officer who wrote Hotel Majestic: Ein Deutscher im besetzten Frankreich and was a supporter of the plot to kill Hitler.

[13] The final battle for The Majestic took place on 25 August in the afternoon as Jaques Massu and Colonel Paul de Langlade of the French 2nd Armored Division moved their troops from the Champs-Élysées to the heavily fortified and barricaded Avenue Kléber.

[14] One of Massu's officers worked his way around the rear of The Majestic on Rue la Pérouse, which was protected by a blockhouse that could only be subdued by a bazooka, but the Germans inside the hotel said they would be willing to surrender to regular soldiers, rather than men of the Resistance.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was founded at the hotel in 1960[17] and it was the location for the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973[18] that ended American involvement in the Vietnam War.

It reopened on August 1, 2014,[20] following extensive rebuilding by Vinci Construction[21] costing €338 million,[22] as The Peninsula Paris, the famous hotel chain's first property in Europe, in a joint venture with Katara Hospitality.