"Histoire Du Jockey Club De Paris" 1958 ROY, Joseph-Antoine
$450
ROY, Joseph-Antoine
[154] pp.
Librairie Marcel Riviere et Cie
1958
8 3/4" x 5 1/2"
The Jockey Club de Paris is a traditional gentlemen's club and is regarded as the most prestigious of private clubs in Paris. It is best remembered as a gathering place of the elite of nineteenth-century French society. Today it is decidedly but not exclusively aristocratic. The club seat is at 2, rue Rabelais in Paris, near the Champs-Elysées and it hosts the International Federation of Racing Authorities.
Reciprocities with other clubs
Circolo della Caccia (Rome)
Knickerbocker Club (New York)
Metropolitan Club (Washington)
Turf Club (Lisbon)
Cercle Royal du Parc (Brussels)
Boodle's (London)
Jockey Club für Österreich (Wien)
Turf Club (London)
Nuevo Club (Madrid)
Somerset Club (Boston)
Pacific-Union Club (San Francisco)
Círculo de Armas (Buenos Aires)
Australian Club (Sydney)
Melbourne Club (Melbourne)
New Club (Edinburgh)
Kildare Street & University Club (Dublin)
Società del Whist Accademia Filarmonica (Torino Italy)
VG
The Jockey Club was originally organized as the "Society for the Encouragement of the Improvement of Horse Breeding in France", to provide a single authority for horse racing in the nation, beginning at Chantilly in 1834. It swiftly became the center for the most sportifs or "sportsmen" gentlemen of le Tout-Paris. At the same time, when aristocrats and men of the haute bourgeoisie still formed the governing class, its Anglo-Gallic membership could not fail to give it some political colour: Napoleon III, who had passed some early exile in England, asserted that he had learned to govern an empire through "his intercourse with the calm, self-possessed men of the English turf".