Marcel Proust penned sections of "Remembrance of Things Past" here, and Georges-Auguste Escoffier toiled in the kitchen trying to perfect his recipes, but this former palace, imbued with more than a century of history, is now forever etched in the public consciousness as the last place Princess Diana supped. It’s also the last place she was seen on video, making her final appearance on CCTV images. But the hotel, which made cameos in Noel Coward's play "Semi-Monde," Billy Wilder's 1957 comedy "Love in the Afternoon" and Lauren Weisberger's "The Devil Wears Prada," is also where in 1993 Pamela Churchill Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to France and prominent socialite, died from a massive stroke during her customary morning swim in the hotel’s lavish underground health spa.