CLUBS IN PARIS

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1886, 10 March 1880, Page 3

CLUBS IN PARIS

The “Figaro” publishes some interesting statistics concerning the clubs of Paris. It appears there are nine first-class clubs in the Preach capital. The Agricultural Club (which is commonly called the Potato Club) contains five hundred and fifty-three members, of whom three hundred and ninety-two are titled personages. The Champs Klysees Club, better known as the Imperial, has three hundred and eighty-five members, of whom one hundred and twenty-four are persona of title, among them being the King of the Belgians, and the Kings of Holland, Portugal, and Sweden, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Grand Dukes Constantine and Nicholas. The Grand Club, familiarly styled Lrs Oenaches. numbers four hundred and fifty-two members. The Jockey Club has seven hundred and eighty-seven members, of whom six hundred and thirtytwo are personages of rank the Kings of Holland and B-lgium, the Prince of Wales, and the Crown Prince of Denmark belong to it. The Rue Royalo Club comprises three hundred and ninety-eight members, among whom are several foreign Princes. The 8. Armand Club, which is commonly called the Oremerie, has as many as fourteen hundred and forty members, but only seventy-three of them are titled personages. The Union Club numbers three hundred and sixty-two, and the Artistic Union Club, better known as the Mirliton, seven hundred and forty-eight, among whom are several crowned heads and princes. There are a number of minor eereles, among which the yacht, the railway, and the pres# clubs

may be mentioned. Amony the details of the inner working of these clubs the “ Figaro points out those where the member* can keep on their hats and those where they must take them off, and those where rooms can or cannot be hired by the member*. The price of dinner varies from four to seven francs, without wine.