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Show I A HISTORIC PARISIAN RESTAU- j RANT. Tt was In the heyday of Iho Second empire, about fifty years ago. that tho Cafe Anglais, reac hed the zenithof its ' prosperity. At that epoch supper meant more than dinner to the smart men and women about Paris. The Cafe Anglais was essentially a supporplaco. to which resorted alter the thea'er the lllu.strlous dandles or Hie time the Due ie Crarnout -Caderousse, the ill-fated ill-fated yoiiMp Prim e of Oiango. heir to the ihrone of Holland, and nickname. I I "Citron;" the late KinR Kdward. then Prince of Wales; the Duke of Hamilton, Hamil-ton, who was finally io break his neck on the staircase ot tho Malson Doree oppo.-lte his boyom friend. Ixud Seymour, Sey-mour, or "My lor' Arsoiillh as he preferred pre-ferred to call himself; th,- late Prince do Sagnn, Mr. Bryan, an eccentilc American member of the Jockey dub, w hosc joy cms practice it w as to pour a hot lie of ouracoa Into the piano, doubtless doubt-less to give It tone. The "(Jiaud the first floor room overlooking the corner of tho Rue do Marivaux and the boulevard, where the mo.-t notable suppers were served, no lonucr has a piano, and this Is a sign of tho changing chang-ing limes, sedate dinners having taken 1 the place of noi.sv suppers. More than once Napoleon III. came incognito to the - Grand 11," where In the exhibition exhibi-tion year. Just before the empire fell. n,i served the famous dinner "of the three eniferers." so-called because Hie amphh tynn was the then czarowlt. afterward Cy.ar Alexander III., and William King of Prussia, after, ward German Kmperor. The "Grand 10'' Is, on account of th.. many impe- rial and royal personates who hue dined within lis red damask hung walls, of all the restaurants dining rooms in the world, the one In which the souvenirs of monarchy hang thiek-e.-t. Once the "Grand 8" of tho defunct de-funct Mal-on Dop'e ran a dose second sec-ond to it; but the proprietors of th-Maison th-Maison Dorce mad" the mistake of purchasing a quantify of wines taken from the Tullerbv and sold at public auction after the Imperial palace had bei n destroyed by the moii, and the flht of the-e t anions crti, on the wine card may well have proved an evesore to the Illustrious personages who In more peaceful times had enjoyed en-joyed the fallen emporor's hosnltallfy. - Rowland Strong in Harper's Weekly. I |