Beau-Rivage Genève is not a hotel—it is a theater of consequence. Founded in 1865 by Jean-Jacques Mayer, this lakefront fortress witnessed the signing of Czechoslovakia’s founding treaty in 1918, the assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898, and Eleanor Roosevelt drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within its salons. Still family-owned, it installed … Continue reading Beau-Rivage Genève: The Lakefront Palace Where Nations Were Born and Royalty Fell