The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . eness tothe Prince Eegent of England, who actually sentLord Fife over to Paris to ascertain this momentousfact. The play which took place in these saloonswas frequently of the most reckless character;large fortunes were often lost, the losers disappear-ing, never more to be heard of. Amongst the English habitues were the Hon. George T , the late Henry Baring, Lord Thanet, Tom Sowerby, Cuth-bert, Mr Steer, Henry Broadwood, and Bob Arnold. The Hon. Georo-e T , who used to arr
The reminiscences and recollections of Captain Gronow, being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs and society, 1810-1860 . eness tothe Prince Eegent of England, who actually sentLord Fife over to Paris to ascertain this momentousfact. The play which took place in these saloonswas frequently of the most reckless character;large fortunes were often lost, the losers disappear-ing, never more to be heard of. Amongst the English habitues were the Hon. George T , the late Henry Baring, Lord Thanet, Tom Sowerby, Cuth-bert, Mr Steer, Henry Broadwood, and Bob Arnold. The Hon. Georo-e T , who used to arrive from London with a very considerable letter ofcredit expressly to try his luck at the Salon desEtrangers, at length contrived to lose his lastshilling at rouge et noir. When he had lost every-thing he possessed in the world, he got up andexclaimed, in an excited manner, If Iliad CanovasVenus and Adonis from Alton Towers, my unclescountry seat, it should be placed on the rouge, forblack has won fourteen times running ! The late Henry Baring was more fortunate athazard than his countryman, but his love of gambling. THE SALON DES ETRANGERS IN PARIS. 121 was the cause of his being excluded from the bankingestablishment. Colonel Sowerby, of the Guards, wasone of the most inveterate players in Paris ; and,as is frequently the case with a fair player, a con-siderable loser. But perhaps the most incurablegamester amongst the English was Lord Thanet,whose income was not less than £50,000 a year,every farthing of which he lost at play. Cuthbertdissipated the whole of his fortune in like fact, I do not remember any instance where thosewho spent their time in this den did not lose all theypossessed. The Marquis de L had a charming villa at Eomainville, near Paris, to which, on Sundays, heinvited not only those gentlemen who were the mostprodigal patrons of his salon, but a number of ladies,who were dancers and singers conspicuous at theopera ; forming a society of the strang
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