#1 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

Ten shameless plugs for my new Penguin China Special in their World War One series Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China’s Long Revolution (ongoing – details of all the titles here) though hopefully with a little useful factoid attached daily….

#1 – The Chinese Delegation Stayed at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris….

The bulk of China’s delegation to the Paris Peace Conference stayed from January to June 1919 at the Hotel Lutetia. Situated on the boulevard Raspail in the heart of Paris’s Left Bank, the Lutetia, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of the smart sixth arrondissement, was an inspired choice. It was certainly one of the more commodious delegation HQs in Paris. Completed just nine years earlier, the hotel was supremely modern, the city’s first art-nouveau hotel.