Hotel de Paris

Hotel de Paris. A Norman inn built in a great silver mining camp by a mysterious Frenchman called Louis Depuy. Opened in 1875, richly furnished from New York and abroad. It became nationally noted for Continental delicacies and the literary bent of its proprietor, a philosopher, social rebel and master cook.

Upon his death in 1900, Dupuy was revealed as Adolphe Francois Gerard, a French gentleman and refugee, formerly a journalist in Paris, London and New York