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ITEM VIEW: CG165105
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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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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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