Identifier: parisinlondon19000lond (find matches)
Title: Paris in London : 1902, Earl's Court : official guide and catalogue : director general Imre Kiralfy
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Art, French Costume, France
Publisher: London : Gale & Polden
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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BAND STAND, WESTERNGARDENS f the palatial Quadrant and to the privileged ones who affect thedaintily trellissed alcoves of the Old Welcome Club. There is theChop House, which caters, with marked success, for a wider andmore democratic constituency, to say nothing of the various buffets,where, in a charming environment, AI fresco Refreshments ?^r© served after the Continental iashipn. 46
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47The lawn and premises of the select and pleasantly quartered Old Welcome Club have been considerably extended and improved during the past fewyears. One of the institutions of the Capital which society could illafford to spare, it is not surprising that the Club which offers so manyunique attractions to its members should become more popular year byyear. Between the Club lawn and the Quadrant Restaurant, one gainsaccess by a flight of steps to the Western Arcade Bridge^ where bijouterie, embroideries, articles de Paris, and what not are dis-played at numerous boutiques and bazaars, much after the manner ofthe Rue de Rivoli and the Palais Royal. Q^^^^^^^^r^ 48 ^be Jnvbin be pans ^beatre. There is, of course, a Paris that seldom seeks diversion, thateven shrinks from sights and sounds of mirth—a sombre Paristhat suflfers, weeps, and toils. But it is the sprightly, jovial Paris,the Paris of irrepressible vivacity that the tourist knows andloves. Largely from the manner in which it pu

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