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Salesman's Room of the Hotel de Paris |
The Hotel de Paris contained two salesman's rooms set aside especially
for the traveling salesman. These rooms were larger than ordinary guest
rooms so that a salesman could bring in and display his wares for potential
customers. These rooms had a separate street entrance, so that customers
could enter the sales rooms without disrupting hotel business. Another
special feature of these rooms was the salesman's bed/desk. This piece
of furniture looked like a large beautiful desk by day, but at night it
expanded into a full-sized bed. The hotel has 4 of these beds on display
in the salesman's rooms today.
Many different salesmen visited the hotel including the Encyclopedia Britannica
salesman whose name is found in the hotel guest register a few times in
1881 and 1882. He may very well have been the one from whom Louis Dupuy
acquired his own set of Encyclopedia Britannica--which still resides in
his library at the hotel today.
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