Qualla: Hotel de Paris https://qualla.com/hotel-de-paris-georgetown-colorado en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hotel de Paris https://qualla.com/hotel-de-paris-georgetown-colorado Hotel de Paris: Introduction https://qualla.com/hotel-de-paris-georgetown-colorado/ The man who built Georgetown's finest hotel was a seminary dropout, a plagiarist, a deserter from the U.S. Army, and a mine explosion survivor. Adolphe Francois Gerard arrived in America from Alencon, France in 1866 with culinary training and questionable ethics. After getting caught selling stolen writing to the Illustrated Newspaper in New York, he fled west, changed his name to Louis Dupuy, and walked on foot from Cheyenne to Denver. When a mining accident in Silver Plume nearly killed him in 1873, the Georgetown community raised money to help him recover. Dupuy used it to open what would become the most celebrated hotel in the Colorado Rockies.

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