The animal tramples the soft thick carpet like its four paws with a leaping step. Drawing a portrait of a cat is not an ordinary thing. But that is precisely because Socrates is not a cat like the others. He’s a mascot. A king who strolls at home as he pleases in Bristol Paris, the legendary palace just off the Elysée. Such is his stardom that he was even entitled to an Easter egg created in his likeness at the hotel’s chocolate factory…
The story between this palace and cats of the German hotel group Oetker begins in 2010. Fa-Raon enters through the main door at 112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The staff immediately accepts it. Customers too. “The presence of the cat fits perfectly with the spirit of Bristol, which is designed to be a family palace with customers and regulars.” says Jean-Marie Bourlet, head of guest relations, who has worked at the hotel since 1992.
Study period behind closed doors
And if he replaced Fa-Raon…
Source: Le Figaro
