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The Hôtel des Trois Couronnes is a hotel in Vevey, Switzerland. It was built in 1842 on the ruins of the Belles Truches castle, built in 1376 . This building once destroyed left the place to a hotel built by Philippe Franel and inaugurated on May 3, 1842 under the name Hôtel Monnet , the name of its owner back then. Gabriel Monnet named it Trois Couronnes because he owned an inn of the same name, also situated on Vevey's Rue du Simplon . Originally built with a direct access to Lake Geneva, the building lost it in 1863 with the construction of the lakeside promenade. In 1890, several transformations occurred: two annexes were added to the main building, as well as a ballroom in the west wing and a new residential area in the east wing . The building is registered as a cultural property of national value . It was entirely renovated in 2000 and since 2003 is a Swiss historical hotel . Among the many celebrities who stayed at the hotel, three crowned heads allowed the hotel property to justify its name: Queen Olga of Greece, the Maharajah Holkar of Indore and King William III of the Netherlands . Inspired by the hotel's intrigue, the writer Henry James wrote his short story Daisy Miller.
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