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2 Rue Rabelais
Paris, France
Type: Other
Status: Open
Open: 1834
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| The Cercle is the place of appointment of the aristocracy and high finance members.To be admitted the candidate had to be proposed by a member and balloted for- almost the cercles were very restrictive to new members. The Cercles were conducted on similar principles to the clubs in London.The members subscribing supported usualy a magnificent apartment in which the members join for the purpose of conversation, reading papers, diner and playing cards and billiard. In some of them the gambling reaches high matches. Some cercles organized theatrical representations, musical evenings, art exhibitions and great dinners, and had accommodation for members
The Jockey Club was established in June 1834 by the Société d'encouragement pour l'amélioration des races de chevaux, and then bore the name of Cercle d'Encouragement before taking its current name. The club had several Address: 2 rue du Helder, 2 rue Drouot, 30 rue de Gramont, 1 Rue Scribe from 1863 before moving in 1925 to its current address. Among its 1,200 current members include many members of the old French nobility but also industrial. Sponsors the Prix du Jockey Club. English-style club. It is the Cercle most closed in the world with very restricted access.
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CG165097 Obsolete
Denom: 100
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2021-05-21
Color: White & Yellow
Contributed by: Jean-Claude Taddei
100 FRF
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CG165102
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
Jockey race 1840. Prince´s tribune.Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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CG165101
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2022-01-19
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
The Jockey Club was born Rue du Helder, towards the beginning of 1834. From the rue du Helder, the Jockey Club was transported to Rue Grange-Bateliere. One hundred and fifty thousand francs were thrown upholsterers, gilders, silversmiths and others to adorn and decorate the temple worthily. A through a large courtyard and a wide vestible, a magnificent staircase leads to the first floor overlooking the boulevard ... right one room to eat and beside a yellow and gilded salon ... the billiard room ... left the reading room.
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In the dining room .. everything is comfortable for six francs, was a maitre d´hotel, ten dishes, six valets, no wine and no coffee ....
From five o'clock until five o'clock in the morning, the crowd is great at the club. Whist, piquet, cigar, chat, are steam operated...
from "Le Diable à Paris, Paris et les Parisians, 1853". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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CG165108
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Le Diable à Paris, Paris et les Parisians, 1853". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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CG165103
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
From "Almanach Illustré du Sport, 1859".Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
Jockey Club race
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CG165104
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
From "Almanach Illustré du Sport, 1859".Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
"The Jockey Club has almost become a power in the state: it takes at once to the court, to the bank, to the chamber of peers, the chamber of deputies, the press, touts the boudoirs of the capital , diplomacy, offices of all ministries and rats of the Opera. The club today so influential, yet has only nine years of life"
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CG165105
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2023-06-25
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
From "Almanach Illustré du Sport, 1859".Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
"Admission requirements to the Jockey Club are to be presented by three members. And the club will never admit a merchant, a writer, an artist.
The opulence of the Jockey Club is such that every year he founded prizes for horse racing, which rise to considerable sums. The Club receives all the newspapers, there are pool games, there plays cards, there they speak pleasures and politics, all without stress and healthy . The police has nothing to do at the Jockey Club.The Jockey Club enjoys a very large government influence"
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CG165106
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
From "Almanach Illustré du Sport, 1859".Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
"Here is the reason: the Jockey Club founded solely for equestrian purposes, felt obliged to admit a large number of members, not only foreign but also unsympathetic to the horse. These intruders are divided into two classes, gastronomes and Whist gamblers ... Let us not forget to say that the Jockey Club, founded specially for the improvement of horses in France, does not employ and never bought than English horses."
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CG165100
Added: 2016-06-23
Last Update: 2016-06-23
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
Comité du Cercle-princes, counts, marquis, dukes, viscount.
from "Annuaire des Grands Cercles,1903". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr
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