about time starting december 31st on d, w. ah, ah, the history of the illustrious bo revised hotel is dotted with tragedy. more than a century ago, an empress died in this luxury establishment. she was staying incognita, signing the guest book under a false name. nevertheless, every one knew who she was. cc empress elizabeth of austria. on september the 10th 18. 98. she was stabbed in geneva. a measure was an anarchist, named lee cheeked chinny. he smiled. he was led away by authorities. cc was brought back to the bill, revised when she died in the arms of the hotel arna. ah, so did he verify collections your snake already vowed this tragic event left its mark on our hotels history as on the mac, my grandmother fanny, who was 24 then and newly married welcomed the empress washer laboratories even in her lifetime. sissy was already such a mythical figure of legend to die of dishonor, vivo, imagined schedules. i imagine how emotional it must have been to go from hosting this extraordinary woman sea to being at her side. in her final moments dorothea repeal she de la she stood asi, danimal empress. elizabeth was no stranger to this tranquil, swift city. hm. to see a doctor says usually cc loved spending time on the shores of lake geneva. it's an exceptional place for said is, excuse y'all, she loved hiking in the mountains, which was very unusual for a person of her rank all that fateful september day began like any other a stroll. some shopping, nothing special. just before she died, she reportedly asked what happened to me in virginia, sir, who rankled her. she came for just 24 hours by wellness. as you leave on orchard had invited her to lunch. she'd been a guest at the boulevard many times before noon, but this was just a short visit. she dropped off her luggage and hurried off to lunch. i'll pull up a little ne. then she shopped and ate some ice cream. she loved ice cream, lay t martini glasses, dirty glass sissy's memory is kept alive in the halls. she once walked showcase displays, the empress is bodice. the drops of blood have faded in the fabric with tine. ah! so to patricia carr makin ne, while he offered his tragic loss, left an imprint on our hotel and the history was brought to light again in the post war period. when mariska made his legendary films about cc, my sisters and i all watched them. of course, we immersed ourselves in the story, knowing the ending took place in our house fillmore offered it on not amazon. well, it was quite traumatic for us as children to watch these films that the whole world was talking about with the knowledge that the end happened here in our hotel far to the water missile. the bo refund has been owned by the maya family for 5 generations. hotels past and present a closely, intertwined set. all that stuff out there that will this is a theater. sometimes. the players, lighthearted. a comedy. other times it's tragic. a drama. it's a place that's full of life, gone to when the hotel was founded in the mid 19th century, there wasn't the same competition that exists today. if you, my great grandfather opened a house that respected the needs of an aristocratic clientele, a secluded kind of world. richter labors wanted clientele kitchen, counter tight, was up to see and be seen. that's what 19th century guesses came to do here among their peers. for a while i pull her do basi pair of galaxy, them the reception area is modern and vibrant. teeming with activity is hotel, may pay homage to its past, but it's not stuck in it. in civilian missile familial icons that we want to be a family house with saw on, you know, financing missile. we all really enjoy working in a house with such a rich history or salad level. but we also must move into the future nursing with modern technology, for example, as you feel if it is any longer so, but our guests needs have evolved over the years and we have to adapt to them. but as to when you would yourself discuss a sir sure that we also have to stay curiosity and observe what the competition is doing. i was looking for the concur on the school method caused the union with with hidden from the guests is a labyrinth of his staff at the mirage work swiftly to produce the sophisticated touches the hotel is known for. hm . suddenly now they give the hotel a soul. he lives in the morning. he the bouquets helped to fill out the splendid rooms. the our gas is really appreciate the flowers. if you look the arctic circle article, yellow fluff with just under $100.00 rooms and suites. the boulevard manages to offer a feeling of intimacy to guests. since the very start, celebrities have been drawn to the hotels charm. live a little too difficult to do her silky dishonorable. the stars are all different. but those who stay at the boulevard embrace it's values, and that means discretion. even prieto poor, they come to hide away. so their privacy is respected. the bulb leverage is not a stage. it's a place to live and you and it's protected, and your kia kia, tie, patricia the luxury suites. look out of a lake geneva, with its landmark, the shadow. a fountain that pumps water, a 140 meters high. the boulevard fits right into this enchanting landscape. with the lake in the alps, jeanette, it's like a fool. it'll get passage. geneva is a crossroads. the mountains cut us off, but the plains are open as far as the i can see. people have to travel to geneva because the lake is an obstacle. now even if you want to travel from the north to the south, you have to cross the lake shoed like a ton of stock. you can only do that via geneva before she would prefer the most vision of heading south to italy, italy, or in the other direction of the saint. bernard pass is never too awful. is it of me like a full deposit? geneva is also a crossroads of thought. or so where great thinkers develop their theories like joan shampoo so such a true. this is also part of our history. so sector sits, is reflected in the character of the people here. they welcomed the whole world. you will software mod learn a little bit from every one and yet remain themselves q hostile there may fiscal m, m m, m. geneva janeth. kenneth ginevra. say it l a v, like it's considered the most cosmopolitan city in switzerland, located in the french speaking part of the country. geneva is the 2nd largest city in switzerland after zurich, 2 characteristics of geneva, discretion and consistency. the words of a 19 sixty's observe a sound almost timeless. m. dek info etched at the old town of geneva, plain but rich, near the secret millionaires live here in geneva, poverty as a vice and a person who is bankrupt is a godless sinner, outcast. ostracized a, the times may be changing, but not in geneva. i will make him good. geneva is when the french rifle, nat geo. calvin developed his beliefs. there is still echoes as the strict protestant doctrine of calvinism here today. to think of it is beautiful to lose the holy hill. this is a calvinism that is not religious, but a calvinism of thought, in the spirit of reform, law and justice. how to keep oscar. if eve, though some of the people of geneva can practise this because they live in a prosperous world, greenville, here from where young the cbs, not all that extravagant. geneva is built on rigor and straightforwardness. we don't show off. we're discrete apologies, cur, on motto. ah geneva 150 years ago, jack my, his great grandparents left their homes in germany. his great grandmother came from hanover, his great grandfather from swaby, opening their own hotel in geneva would be an adventure. ah. although his gender hotel is the result was on psych every patch of arsenal. tal for to go by the electricity in the hotel opened in 18. 65. there was no central heating, electricity or running water. it each room was equipped with the fireplace and the staff carried wood upstairs and ashes back down again. it was a lot of work, boca said, you know, in fact, you can receive them. this is a bill for heating material, sulky low. do what for ya? pooler pool shall fall. here we have 100 kilos of beechwood for heating and a ton of coke. the cock coke at that time was not what we call cocaine today. it was fuel actually cold dust to de la poodle during lunch, was formed into colbert cats, or blocks for meal ticket to be all did, would at albertine and shawn jack. maya, the founders, enterprising spirits still permeates the hotel, serving as inspiration, innovation was on the couples minds from the start. where was the largest dining room in the city? and the 1st elevator, the bo rivers, of course. the hotels foyer from 19. 0, it has a neo classical look. that a cool is elegant and lavish. the illustrious guests came in droves. actress zara bernard was a loyal guest for decades. the maharaja of patty, allah, artist john cook top and double. 07. that is roger more. from a french president, shout a gall greeted by a young shock maia and his sisters princesses and princes, politicians, and heads of state. the hotel guest book is filled with the signatures of stars. the american actor burt lancaster wrote one spoon stolen. if all could talk, each floor of the barrage would have stories to tell, especially at the very top where the hotels most exclusive, sweet is tucked away. it was here that eleanor roosevelt, the widow of us, president franklin, d. roosevelt changed the course of history. the year was 1947, and the former 1st lady stayed in the sweet while drafting a major paper for the united nations. this is also your exceptional movie bernacki for amanda. we are here in a very special place where people who have shaped the world have stayed as guests of new social boss with all the heads of state politicians and people who participated in the great geneva conferences after edition. i have an end of course, eleanor roosevelt, an unforgettable personality for geneva. and that was who she was in charge of a commission to draft the universal declaration of human rights. and she did it here, shall the commercial or get hot enough kiara liberal. this is the fundamental document of the united nations, like a guiding star. so dr. muffled m alt, i'll do the national genie. hey, sissy really to all the child, you know, can cooper to cities, hotels in the united nation. so the very special relationship during state visits, hotel serve as the link between backroom politics and official announcements. it's the point between private conversations and will to face to like a discrete, unofficial parker to the un. ah, the most momentous, international conference of the post war era turned the eyes of the world, the summer, or the trans gross was capitol of geneva, the gleaming palace of nations big for america, england, france, and russia met to seek an end to a decade of cold war heading, the soviet delegation were bri, mirabelle, gannon and communist party chief cruise jeff displaying russia's plan, policy of friendship. bruce jeff called will gun. and back for cameramen. though nominally outranked by the premier, bruce just appeared very much. the boss. president eisenhower accompanied by secretary of state dollars over to exchange complete military information with the russians in a dramatic personal appeal. but the plan was rejected. bible gannon and the president war time, friend general zak. all that left britain's eden and french premier. for so potter the daring american proposal it was in this whole of the united nations that the so called big full met. it was also here at the geneva conference, 1954 that a new chapter was set in motion for viet nam. and it's where the geneva caught on afghanistan was signed in 1988 the palace of nations in geneva houses the european headquarters of the un. how does the history of the united nations overlap with the hotel bo vash? hotel owner jack maya wants to know more about the us 1st lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. i committed to privacy only the caching over to new york. it is the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights in the 1st met exclusively in new york. on this then in december 1947, the committee came to geneva to approve the text with eleanor roosevelt as its chairperson. he don't go to the ovens in the text. okay. that's right. that was he did clear we have the photograph that shows eleanor roosevelt and the holding the universal declaration of human rights was bent on every secret santa de castle. qc you had chose her as chair president, ella reported on i to mine. ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights about some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st. there's also the leg, isn't there something? what was that? because she was a woman. she was an activist. right ma'am. all who? yes is really cool. a mom? her mom, there were many different committees. swallows us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee, dealing with social issues. it could put it, it was more of a representative job, a token gesture, in that the name on those went also helping. but gosh, paula had her as a history, we were not under considered official a law. it's affected of you because about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issue suddenly became pressing a modern look and appear and appeared less on the line of guys moving. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of careers, marquis revenue for that, and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights, wedlock. yeah, i thickly, again, i thought i would have them move, you commit it, let me so that some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time that he did renew it all. so for the girls limited in on it, don't know, kind of italy and, and the delegate one delegate, i think from indonesia complained. he said human rights are not respected by the commission on human rights. because she made the delegates work until 7 p l a n with you or some of those. i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back then, because she stayed there whenever she visited immersion google, surely there were private meetings in the hotels. then as there are now to learn it anyway, visit him and asked him if i can look, which was a yes, a lot happens at these informal meetings, riggins this suite at the barrage is the perfect place for such private or even secret meetings. guests can have their choice of several spacious rooms, but what happens when state guests arrive at the hotel who don't quite fit in with other top officials and the protection of confidentiality is potentially compromised. that's where tact is crucial. dickerson, like his annette philosophy, to professional holiness a few years ago i received the former secretary general of the united nations coffee anonymous of jordan. did he just had the same time? we had a delegation here from a country that was not necessarily supposed to be directly associated with the secretary general at hall ashanti high. so the united nations protocol asked me to let the secretary general in through the back entrance. are you the more as if this actually thought the whole? sure, of course i had the red carpet rolled out between the dumpsters. as i said to him, i'm sorry to receive you amid the dumpsters. but he just said, don't worry. it happens all the time in new york, preposterously ceaseless request while new york is about 12000. you and meetings are held each year in geneva mentioned what that means in terms of the number of guests to the city. the you in place an important economic role for geneva. as ever discretion says hoteliers jack, my aunt is essential. beside the palace of nations is apart. it's close to the public for security reasons. the so called cuts your net soon with its many international organizations, forms the city within the city generated of new vienna on this, you know, the bottom middle of silva coolness to the geneva became an international city in 1920 with the establishment of the league of nations bow, a new train station and airport were belt to this various institutions and non governmental organizations emerged, such as pacifist or feminist associations at which to day form their own international ecosystem. the populace moved into it sometimes like the people here are living on 2 different planets within one city goodies. but in recent years and more effort has been made to integrate these organizations into the daily life of geneva, moore. and taylor is of, in this, with an, as an end on it, he quoted in the united nations employs around $10000.00 people in geneva. but at, in the n g o's, an international organizations, and that number increases at least 3 fault. the hotels naturally benefit from this dynamic in the close, most of international politics and secret meetings, journalists prefer to meet their sources in hotels that are known for their discretion. they a safe places how depressed will be us is one such journalist born in york, she's an investigative reporter, covering environmental issues, corruption and money laundering. she reports the cnn and our 0 among other publications. the international fame of geneva comes from i guess 2 elements that are sometimes in opposition with each other. on the one hand, you have of course, the u. n. the world health organization, the international labor association, the international red cross of course that spaced here. on the other hand, that you have the banking sector, which is also very well known internationally. the problem is right now with stories of money laundering and corruption, ah, that have been linked so closely to the banking sector. here they have brought the lime lights international limelight to themselves. unwillingly such scandals have damage to nervous reputation. can the city's good name be restored? i think geneva is really ah, trying to surpass some of the negative aspects of this image that projects internationally. there's a certain hope that's with this new international exchange of data and in what concerns the banking sector, that any of us so well known for that all these stories that have sullied its past will pass. i think it's trying as much as possible to maintain geneva as an international center of negotiation of humanitarian issues. so that is where the hope lies. that's all that these bricks concert of latch together. and that that would be how people see geneva in the future. for decades, geneva has attracted not only into pricing reporters and serious journalists, but also paparazzi from all over the world. important meetings taking place under the roof of the boulevard all the time. for hoteliers jack maya, it's all about shielding and protecting all sim tenuously remaining absolutely invisible when it comes to navigating political interests, financial ties and image problems. meyer is a seasoned expert clerk, older introducer. the hosted little more. the role of a hood to ye is to remain totally neutral and we are, after all, in a political environment that is neutral, going to mix it on to political. but as far as the economy is concerned, it's different. we defend in open geneva genevas. i can also play a social role to do this. it needs prosperity, obviously not at all costs, but the city needs to be prosperous or spell. the boulevard has also seen hard times. at the outbreak of the 2nd world war, the swiss hotel plunged into crisis. visitors stayed away. the pages at the guest book remained blank. clusters at their big disorder in switzerland was an isolated country. wedged between the blocks of the north and the south, the east and the west, the progress on it was on the border of the free zone. so people stopped visiting or from la proposal and the bully raj, like most hotels, closed down for me. private film footage from august and september 19th. as she 9 shows, trips in paris and normandy, the start of world war 2. the camera also captured late. geneva, seemingly untouched by the war. but the swiss were not truly unscathed. it's literally that was a very difficult time with my parents, aunts, uncles, my grandparents lived outside the city and only occasionally came to era. the hotel opened the windows and check for any flooding with has shown it. so didn't the yoke . of course, it was the time that shaped my parents and grandparents m. me are prior to what after that, a new generation came with him of businesses reopened. and many new tourists came to discover geneva levies, i think was what they wanted a new life, a different life. we've heard. no. so geneva picked up quickly after the war in my house. you have had more than i go to european than usual. i spent all my thursdays in this place when i was a teenager, because my father received the wine deliveries on thursdays winds from bog, anya, or bordeaux. i used to help him opened the crate. guess said we tell you t, my job was to use a ruler and make sure that the bottles were aligned perfectly. just not even a 2 millimeter difference was allowed me to be met the dick a hush all today. a lot my father didn't allow the wine cellar manager to help himself directly from the wine racks, soccer lea earlier tories. if so, they come in the fuser shack cause year it, it keep picking a ticket. surety can track had a card with the name of the wine, the origin, the vintage, the quantity, and the purchase price on hill. gov, what he wrote, the purchase price backwards. so that nobody else knew what he paid for them to connect with him, but also to maintain an overview. he attached these cards im i spent my childhood cutting them out, which he then placed on the rack engine or force at the computer won't did the whole cattle good. we met our place, your because you, he was us in there are the most valuable bottles. what is that one? i mean, do you mean amazon e from 79? lou sundays enough. sundays left a letter from 1979. she said what beautiful bottles do you know the oldest bottle we have taken reserve on. it's not a wine, but a con. yeah, said laughing champagne, a cognac d from 1820 lazoodo pulliam just missed that one. we still have a few bottles of it. my parents bought it at in auction a long time ago for a long li boulevard, said installed the good winds come with a long history that the previous head, some of the a or even his predecessor contributed towards like a temple of wine. the bottles lie here with their dust and history. while the work of a summary is to continue the history, which goes hand in hand with that of the hotel, south bell julia, we started a really strong de la missile. know, i bring my knowledge and the winds that i like or discover, but i will always respect the tradition of the bordeaux and borg on the lines that boldly, bosh surely var just to the world. i hope these bottles will always remain here for the sake of legacy and future some of the year for the future. so hi, this you i um just oh, with ah, even in an establishment as carefully managed as the bull rivers. there are some things that a hotel owner simply cannot control or prevent like, what happened here just over 30 years ago? ah, this yemen journalist played a prominent role in this series of events. in october 1987, he discovered the former state premier of slash mc holstein. movable shall dead in the bath. tom sebastian canal photographed him. the image appeared in the magazine. sten provoking something of the scandal and gemini the school versus the tooth. olivia john, all to interview so the bo revised as an ideal place for interviews, disclosed new, so should so. so even if the hotel management doesn't always appreciate the political interviews are conducted on their premises and liquid atmosphere, the history and you can create a good atmosphere with it, especially in luxury hotels where the guest feels comfortable and can open up a business houses food. so how did the scandal happen? ah sebastian, now i had traveled from handled to geneva in the hope of conducting an interview with the former jim est premier if the partial had been accused of organizing a smear campaign against a political opponent, the journalist was hoping to meet ashley in the bar. yes o daschle didn't appear, said the journalist entities room the next day without permission. so it'll help dunker to log on on some, a shoe after mccoy was dimly led to woodson, but there was a single shoe in the hallway under us. there was a corridor that led to the bearings, and there were other things lying about and saw such as pajamas of some sweets. oscars not booked by john poses no more, surprisingly enough. open to a certain story that deals with suicide. and this was all along the documents i was interested in, were lying there on as if prepared for a journalist visit and t. it's how i would use it until i wasn't sure how i should document them. so my, so i took the papers to my photographer, little blurbs 1000 austin had told him to wait outside the room. and let me know when mister basha returns mused in. he was supposed to keep a lookout and warned me by my oscar, you know, seemed sim on my way out. i knocked on the bathroom door of the to the infinite. i opened the door and saw in the bathroom mirror. there was a lifeless body in the bath tub, saw and leaped was covered under licked w claw here soon was gonna call. it was clear to me then that something terrible it happened. and bit of a stan reporter found partial dead in his bathroom. he to, to bassetti estimate early reports suspect the politician shot himself voting for no book. the journalist found him in the bath tub and his head above the water. apart from his shoes or a basho was fully clothed. sir shauntay, catherine rossetto ear sunday shows gary of come on. that was 1987. and these things can happen. they can happen anywhere any time. all in that horse is just our role is to deal with this as a public place where children are born. a place full of life for people are born here married here and they die here. all see money that's life and a hotel is about life. and return sylvie, following the gym and politicians, death journalists, and photographers camped out for weeks in front of the hotel entrance. inside the boat with ash swiss and gem and criminal investigators trying to determine whether was suicide and murder, o, a natural death. how did the hotel deal with the aftermath? with signature discretion? the room number 317 simply no longer exists. so russia, there we go. to menus, with frogs ravioli, salmon lobster, sol fargo, and 2 orders of venison. joy dominique a t is the head chef a 2 rivers. like his predecessor, he has a mission star. the restaurant lou shibel tay opened 50 years ago to the outside world before then it was exclusively for the hotel guests. to products come from the lake in the mountains, both seasonal and region and is that really helpful? is your them cooperate? is it when they go when you're young, you chase after the stars quite busy in the michelle and star city. that's just incredible for a chef in present, brought out to be famous genius of you. but as you get older, you realize that the most important thing is to please your guest tracy, to be attentive on killing the fair on. if you prioritize the customer, looking at the stars will follow on their own, was a bit of bottled. did you learn that at the age of 50, says we'll have home. and pete's a council for my interpreter at collier or me, a table has to feel friendly. that's important or to learn to that other. it has to look beautiful and inviting to us as rice you should feel at home too. sure is you wanted a table sat like this. invite you to sit down and have a meal. sit a dinner appetizer for 2 for the career frog legs in baton. deep fry to sift with garlic milk, firm, speech sauce, and fresh basil. it's a classic dish here. sa city. when we say black, these are the frogs. so awesome. a dish. i developed a good 15 years ago. i like, yeah. it's on the menu every day. the feel really many guests come for the frogs. similar are the burgers ready? yet we even have fast food in a hotel. you have to do it all the by revise opened more than a 150 years ago. how does it preserve tradition? it still keep up with the times on the national living counsellor as she did. and we're fortunate to have a very loyal clientele who we strive to take care of these customers name as well as their children, 4 or even grandchildren. awful. he want things done differently, and all have differing demands and famel. and it's on us to adapt to this sanusi the in the said desa the hotel manager de florist the head of reception. they all share the same philosophy. this house has a soul because they give it one shot. janelle shaw said papa, ma'am, she'll gladly leave out a formal dodge generation has its own way of expressing itself, even if we all maintain the same fundamental values. my father, for example, was a man who enjoyed good food. he opened the house to gastronomy and to a modern world, which was a world of business metadata one year due to his imperial dirt. when he took over the both of ash he catered to a new generation that came to geneva for conferences and seminars that had nothing to do with the fine society of the bell epoch. what a celebrity and i were how the crew is going to put it up. but i also had to further develop the house is a do film of shows on the more geneva connects with the world, the more it secures its future soccer. that's obvious. for her, she has one i've so how will the coming generations, the 5th of the 6th change things, 40 years from now, remember, that's what i'd like to know, like embassy jimmy national dall can handle some of the some sour at boulevard. each generation has had a hand in writing the hotels history, from the politics to celebrity encounters the owners of navigated every twist and turn with signatures with discretion. and they're ready to great. what chapter comes next? mm mm . mm mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm ah, to be your own health advocate. by turning into your own expert queen or your coach without any fiction and lots of facts. be active in a clever way. with 30 minutes long d, w. o. c double used crime fighters are back that africa, most successful radio drama series, continues them all episodes are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now with the landscape, a reflection of a turbulent history. the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. the ron's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty. ah, a special look at a special country. he loan from above starts december 27th on d, w. ah ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin cove at 19 clouds, yet another christmas search and the on a 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