PARIS (REUTERS).- Say “La Samaritaine” in this city and shopping-mad Parisians will wax nostalgic about a beloved department store which once boasted it had “everything”. Now, the monument to retail therapy on the right bank of the Seine which has been closed since 2005, is set to undergo a three-year, 450 million euro redesign that will transform it into a luxury hotel, with adjacent buildings housing offices, public apartments, and of course, shops. With an Art Deco facade and its name proudly displayed in big block letters, La Samaritaine was the most egalitarian of the “grand magasins,” or opulent department stores in the French capital, featuring a huge variety of goods for sale from flowers and bathing suits, to candies and hats. Its doors closed in 2005, however, after the building fell afoul of safety codes and years of wrangling ensued between its current own