Biography
Charles Ritz was the first of two sons born to French hotelier César Ritz (born 1850) and Marie-Louise Beck Ritz (born 1867, whose family also owned and ran a hotel in Menton).
He did not know his itinerant father well, and César died when Charles was 27 years old.
Charles Ritz emigrated to the United States in 1916 where he became a soldier in the US Army. When World War I ended, Ritz returned to the US, and soon spent considerable time mastering the art of fly-fishing in the American West. He married Elisabeth Pierce.
Ritz remarried in 1971 and retired from the hotel presidency in 1976, three months before his death.
He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery alongside his first wife.
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