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Restaurant In Paris And Gives: Many a slick magazine has taken a fling at the subject of Paris restaurants. These include British Vogue (some years ago) and our Flair, before it passed away. The Vogue job was a marvel of conciseness, each restaurant being spotted on the map and described by means of a cleverly devised legend. If you have the luck to find one, maybe in a Paris bookstall, will have a treasure, but I fear it is now a museum piece.
By the early years of the 18th centun naries were widely accepted, and there great increase in the number doing bi Later, around the middle of the 18th centt term restaurant was first used, by a pub! ing house in Paris. This place was imme popular and inspired copies. Individual for small groups of people appeared for tl time in these restaurants. After the French lution, the restaurant became more import many of the great chefs of noble houses, dii by the upheavals of the time, started public places.
La Tour d'Argent, on the top Floor of a corner building at 15 quai i Tournelle, commanding a glorious cross-river view of the apse and flying buttresses of Notre Dame, is a place of utmost distinction. Silver Tower calls itself the oldest restaurant in Paris and gives its date < birth as 1582. It is seriously said that in this stronghold of elegance a new-*! fangled instrument called the fork was first used. Whether or not this cattl be substantiated, it is undeniable that the restaurant has been a gathering place of celebrities ever since its founding. To read the roster of theml is like leafing through a Who Was Who. |
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