known restaurateur of St. Petersburg, who had been cook to a Czar, thought that as Paris loved St. Peters- burg so ardently, louis might be coined in a Restaurant Cubat in Paris while only roubles were to be taken in St. Petersburg. The Restaurant Cubat, excellent as it was, with its mixture of the French and Russian cuisines, did not “ catch on ” in Paris, and after the great Exposition of 1900 Cubat went back to St. Petersburg. For a while the Hotel de Pavia remained empty, but eventually the Travellers’ Club was formed on European lines, having an attached association in London, and it has become an admirably managed club on the same lines as the best London clubs, and with a subscription equally high. The British Club, which has been in existence a dozen or more years, has had many homes. It began , life in the Grand Hotel, emigrated to The British 1 t> i 1 , ^ ° , Club, 8 Boule- the Boulevard des Capucines, moved vard Males- Gn to the Rue de l’Arcade, and now, at last, seems to be securely established in the Boulevard Malesherbes, not a stone’s throw from the Madeleine. The tax the French authorities levy on clubs has been a difficulty which the British Club has had to meet, and, like the Travellers’, it has faced it successfully. The subscription to British members residing in Paris is £2 a year, and there is a small entrance fee. The club has foreign and country members, and it extends the privilege of temporary membership to certain of the London clubs. The British Club has an English billiard-table, a reading- room, and a certain number of bedrooms for the use of its members. The Lawn Tennis Club on the Isle des Puteaux is a pleasant place at which to take afternoon tea Tennis Club, under the big sunshades, and in the isle des Puteaux summer-time is a meeting-place for the smart people of the French and Anglo-Saxon world. ( 'Paris 59 The Polo Club at Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, close to Longchamps, is to Paris what Ranelagh and Hurlingham are to London. It has its p0io Club, little pavilion where the ladies take tea, Bagatelle and its flower-beds and decoration are very well arranged. Bagatelle has its gymkhanas, its races tor children, and its competitions for ladies, after the manner of the clubs upon which it is modelled. If La Boulie had done nothing else to deserve fame, the fact that it was the training ground on which Massy, one of the world’s champions, Golf Club, learned his golf would make it notable. La Boulie Great attention has been given to the greens. They have been partially underlaid with sand, and in the summer are watered daily. Of the purely Parisian clubs in Paris the Union Club is the most exclusive. It corresponds perhaps more nearly to the London Marl- „ , , borough Club than to any other club runion, Boule- I know. Its club-house is on the vard la Boulevard de la Madeleine, where it Madeleine occupies two floors of one of the big houses. There is very little card-playing at the Union, the traditions of the club being that it should be a salon and not a gaming-place, and politics are kept rigorously in the background. It has nearly 400 permanent members and a little over 200 honorary members. King Edward was one of the permanent members.

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known restaurateur of St. Petersburg, who had been cook to a Czar, thought that as Paris loved St. Petersburg so ardently, louis might be coined in a Restaurant Cubat in Paris while only roubles were to be taken in St. Petersburg. The Restaurant Cubat, excellent as it was, with its mixture of the French and Russian cuisines, did not “ catch on ” in Paris, and after the great Exposition of 1900 Cubat went back to St. Petersburg. For a while the Hotel de Pavia remained empty, but eventually the Travellers’ Club was formed on European lines, having an attached association in London, and it has become an admirably managed club on the same lines as the best London clubs, and with a subscription equally high. The British Club, which has been in existence a dozen or more years, has had many homes. It began , life in the Grand Hotel, emigrated to The British 1 t> i 1 , ^ ° , Club, 8 Boule- the Boulevard des Capucines, moved vard Males- Gn to the Rue de l’Arcade, and now, at last, seems to be securely established in the Boulevard Malesherbes, not a stone’s throw from the Madeleine. The tax the French authorities levy on clubs has been a difficulty which the British Club has had to meet, and, like the Travellers’, it has faced it successfully. The subscription to British members residing in Paris is £2 a year, and there is a small entrance fee. The club has foreign and country members, and it extends the privilege of temporary membership to certain of the London clubs. The British Club has an English billiard-table, a readingroom, and a certain number of bedrooms for the use of its members. The Lawn Tennis Club on the Isle des Puteaux is a pleasant place at which to take afternoon tea Tennis Club, under the big sunshades, and in the isle des Puteaux summer-time is a meeting-place for the smart people of the French and Anglo-Saxon world. ( 'Paris 59 The Polo Club at Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, close to Longchamps, is to Paris what Ranelagh and Hurlingham are to London. It has its p0io Club, little pavilion where the ladies take tea, Bagatelle and its flower-beds and decoration are very well arranged. Bagatelle has its gymkhanas, its races tor children, and its competitions for ladies, after the manner of the clubs upon which it is modelled. If La Boulie had done nothing else to deserve fame, the fact that it was the training ground on which Massy, one of the world’s champions, Golf Club, learned his golf would make it notable. La Boulie Great attention has been given to the greens. They have been partially underlaid with sand, and in the summer are watered daily. Of the purely Parisian clubs in Paris the Union Club is the most exclusive. It corresponds perhaps more nearly to the London Marl- „ , , borough Club than to any other club runion, Boule- I know. Its club-house is on the vard la Boulevard de la Madeleine, where it Madeleine occupies two floors of one of the big houses. There is very little card-playing at the Union, the traditions of the club being that it should be a salon and not a gaming-place, and politics are kept rigorously in the background. It has nearly 400 permanent members and a little over 200 honorary members. King Edward was one of the permanent members.

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