The age-herald., 1901-12-08
Wherein it Differs from England and this Country

was its first president but as he was compromised in the attack against Mon sieur Loubet at Auteuil, and later in the famous "complot" the government closed the club. To secure it's reopening the Marquis resigned as president, and Baron de Zuylen succeeded him. The club Is exceedingly prosperous, and oc- cupies magnificent hotel on the Place de la Concorde, which is sumptuously furnished, and includes a roof garden among its attractions "Chauffeurs, ,, engineers, politicians, journalists, artists, and the younger aristocracy make up the membership, and form happy family with automobiling as a common interest, which binds the members of almost all classes in life closely together when un- der the roof of the club, one of the youngest in years in Paris.
 The second club in the matter Of age in Paris Is the Jocxey Club, exec sdingly popular in France, and originally an an next to the Society for the Encouragement and Ameiioraticn of the Race in France. Founded with Lord Seymour as president, the Jockey Club soon became a power as we'll as popular institution. The Due dOrleans, the Due de Nemours, and the Prince of Moscow were among its first members. When the club prospered the famous commission of dukes was formed which secured and furnished the hotel on the Boulevard des Capucines that the Jockey Club occupies at present, a hand some clubhouse, where high play is by no means drowned upon. The membership inc ludes twentytwo of the former peers of France, l21 senators and deputies, one pre- sident of the National Assembly, the Due d 'Audifret, the Due de Morny, eleven mfDist CTS who have held office in France and three members of the French Acad- emy.
 Another or the older clubs of Paris Is the Cercle de la Rue Royale. One of it's first presidents was the Count Mexence de Damas. The majority of the m embers in 1866 voted to unite with the Agricul- tural Club. As result the minority re- organized the Cercle de la Rue RoyaIe with General Due de Lesparres as presi- dent. Abou this time Prince Murat founded the Steeplechase Society, which readily assimilated itself with the reor- ganized club. The catastrophes of 1870 disorganized the club, which, however, the Prince de Sagan succeeded in bring Ing to gether again, and the club is now installed in the celebrated Hotel Coislin on the Place de la Concorde, direc'sy op- posite the ministry of marine. His ma jesty, the King of England, who is ex- ceedingly popular with the French aris- tocracy, Is also a member of the Cercle de la Rue Royale
 The Cercle Agricole occupies a splendid building across form the Palais- Bourbon, overlooking the Seine. It was founded by the Dues de Doudeaville and Mont morency and the Count de la Rochefou- cauld, who proposed to unite their expe- rience zeal and instruction to develop the production of blood horses and to hasten the perfection of agriculture, as well as to encourage scientific discover les, which would become profitable, and to propagate new theories in agricultur- al science which would prove advantage ous to cultivators French agriculture Is largely in the hands of the aristocracy, which has clung to the land and the cultivation of the soil. The Agricultural Club has been nicknamed the Potato Club. and comprises in It's membership list the names of the great landowners of France. It Is exclusive and the sanc- tuary Of conservatism in France.
 An entirely different kind of club is the Cercle de fUnion Artistique, known as the Epatant founded in 1860 by a group of the elite among the artistic and aris- tocratic set. Many military men are in- cluded among its members The Epatant fetes are famous in Paris for eclat, and the play Is, as usual, high Of all the clubs in Paris none affords more amuse- ment to Its members than the Epatant The latter gained much unweoome mo- teriety during the Dreyfus affair, owing to the fact that Esterhazy, who was