Perd vue ... Jean-Prosper Gay-Para : l pl bell nus libanais, c't lui(photos) - L'Orient-Le Jour

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• PERD VUE ... JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA : L PL BELL NUS LIBANAIS, C'T LUI(PHOTOS)
• DISPARN L’ANIMATR S NUS BEYROUTH, PROSPER GAY-PARA, N’T PL
• GUY GAY-PARA
• JEAN PROSPER GAY-PARA SUR L'OPTIMISME ET L'OUVERTURE MON S LIBANAIS VERS "UNE SOCIéTé NSOMMATN ENSOLEILLéE"
• JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA
• GAY-PARA – MA TRAVERSéE DU SIèCLE

PERD VUE ... JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA : L PL BELL NUS LIBANAIS, C'T LUI(PHOTOS)

Personne n’a oublié Jean-Prosper Gay-Para. «La richse l’homme, c’t garr la cursé l’pr», fa partie s proverb préférés Prosper Gay-Para.

Prosper, fils d’Alphonse Gay-Para et Nada Modié, t né le 24 avril 1914 dans une fale rtratrs. Celui qui a transformé l nus beyrouth, Prosper Gay-Para, PGP pour l tim, s’t étet à l’âge 89 ans à l’hôpal Rizk, s su d’une pnmonie. Pour cet événement annuel, lancé en 1956, Gay-Para ava misé sur ux idé: présenter un spectacle édie ançaise et privilégier le folklore libanais.

Cette affaire ava développé la productn mile Liban…En 1967, Gay-Para t parti pour la France pour ouvrir un hôtel, Le Byblos, à Sat-Tropez. The young actrs already had a huge fan base, cludg Jean-Prosper Gay-Para, a Lebane entreprenr who had the Byblos Hotel, named after one of the olst ports of Lebanon, built hope of woog Bardot.

DISPARN L’ANIMATR S NUS BEYROUTH, PROSPER GAY-PARA, N’T PL

And while she attend the flamboyant guratn, much to Gay-Para's disappotment, she didn't show any tert him. Gay-Para's visn for the Byblos was a Provençal hamlet wh stuc aprit and salmon-pk hued buildgs terspersed wh small squar planted wh swayg palms that slope down towards the pool.

In Gay-Para’s day, part of the spa was actually a gentlemen’s n of somewhat secret gogs-on straight out of A Thoand and One Nights. Guy Gay-Para t un énomiste et homme d'affair an-libanais, né à Beyrouth le 20 août 1950 et mort le 7 octobre 2007.

Son père, Jean Prosper Gay-Para (1914-2003), fut, dans l anné 1950-1960, l'un s pl importants homm d'affair du Liban et le créatr, en France, du Byblos, le famx établissement Sat-Tropez. Par BOULOS JEAN-CLAUDE, le 30 mai 2003 à 00h00 Jean Prosper Gay-Para, un homme à qui le Liban do beup dans l’expansn son dtrie hôtelière et qui t mort dans sa quatre-vgt-dixième année dans l’timé faiale et lo s honnrs qui lui étaient d. Enre, no avons dansé dans l’timé du Corsaire, le night-club du Palm Beach (transformé pl tard en Théâtre 10 hr) étns un groupe d’universair le vendredi 25 mars 1955 à l’guratn du rtrant night-club L v du Roy, dont Prosper Gay-Para alla faire le night-club le pl célèbre du mon, vérable stutn natnale libanaise que le mon entier no a envié avons admiré le urage fou Prosper quand il a ouvert le Byblos Sat-Tropez, portant sur la Riviera ançaise, le nom prtigix du pl vix port notre Phénicie historique.

GUY GAY-PARA

Jean Prosper Gay-Para, un homme à qui le Liban do beup dans l’expansn son dtrie hôtelière et qui t mort dans sa quatre-vgt-dixième année dans l’timé faiale et lo s honnrs qui lui étaient d.

She also spired a smten Lebane bsman named Jean-Prosper Gay-Para to build a hotel and nightclub the place that Bardot had e to love hop of woog the actrs. Opened 1967, the Byblos Hotel and s on-se nightclub, L Cav du Roy, quickly beme synonymo wh celebry joie vivre (Gay-Para was unable to w Bardot’s affectns, but she did show up for the openg ftivi, which spanned three days and totaled 700 guts). Although high-society photographer Slim Aarons never shot at Byblos, his axm about the plac he ptured, “attractive people attractive plac dog attractive thgs, ” easily appli to Byblos and L Jon at Hotel Byblos, 1978Photo: Edward Qun / Courty of Hotel ByblosGay-Para, who sold the properti to French bsman Sylva Floirat a few months after their guratn, imaged his hotel would remble a fairy tale–like mix of a Provençal hamlet and the ty port of Byblos, one of the olst villag Lebanon, and which uld rival a palace One Thoand and One Nights.

It’s fair to say Gay-Para achieved his dream: Perched on the hight hill St. Not your average csh, to be sure, but the bedazzled, distant, hopels love that Jean-Prosper Gay-Para, the billnaire Lebane hotelier, harboured for the ptivatg and pric actrs Brigte Bardot 1960, at the height of her fame. On a terrace the Lebane port cy of Byblos, found by the Phoenicians, Gay-Para told a iend of his fatuatn.

JEAN PROSPER GAY-PARA SUR L'OPTIMISME ET L'OUVERTURE MON S LIBANAIS VERS "UNE SOCIéTé NSOMMATN ENSOLEILLéE"

“So build a hotel St Tropez worthy of Bardot, ” suggted the iend, and that is jt what Gay-Para proceed to do.

The fantasy hotel that Gay-Para nstcted homage to Bardot was somethg not seen before on the Côte d’Azur.

JEAN-PROSPER GAY-PARA

Ined, you have to look hard to fd all the treasur, maly early Christian sculpture, that Gay-Para stalled, but they are worth seekg out: rved stone tab doors om Palmyra the otherwise low-key lobby; the arrtg Vallris ceramics of Roger Capron and Jean Derval; and the tritely rved, 17th-century wood ceilg and walls of the Salon Libanais, now a treatment room the soothg Sisley spa. Two months after he opened the hotel wh a celebry-packed party for more than 700 guts, hosted by Bardot and Mireille Darc, Gay-Para lnched the hotel’s fabled club L Cav du Roy. In June 1967, the Six-Day War broke out and soon after Gay-Para returned to Beit to look after his terts there.

In September of that year, self-ma lnaire bsman Sylva Floirat ma what he though was a risory offer for the hotel, but Gay-Para accepted and he and his fay took on. One of them, Jean-Prosper Gay-Para, adms his fatuatn for Brigte Bardot and his sire to build « a palace worthy of the Thoand and One Nights, unique s kd, om one si of the Mederranean to the other.

Wh the Israeli-Arab nflict, Jean-Prosper Gay-Para cis to return to Beit and to part wh the Byblos.

GAY-PARA – MA TRAVERSéE DU SIèCLE

This was the suatn that Lebane billnaire hotelier Jean-Prosper Gay-Para found himself , only he me to the. double entendre - leavg Gay-Para wh a sizeable challenge.