No Enquiry Is Made As To The Character And Conduct Of A Person Who Is
Admitted As An Honorary Member:
It is sufficient that he be recommended by
a permanent member, which is deemed a sufficient guarantee for his
respectability.
In this society there are dining rooms, billiard rooms,
card rooms, a large reading room. Here too is a small but well chosen
library and three or four newspapers in every European language; all the
German newspapers and reviews and the principal periodical works in the
German, French, English and Italian languages. The English papers taken in
here are the Times, Courier and Chronicle. Of the French, the
Moniteur, Journal des Debats, Constitutionel, Journal du Commerce, Gazette
de France and Gazette de Lausanne, and of the Italian the Gazette di
Milano, di Venezia, di Firenze and di Lugano. Every German newspaper is,
I believe, to be found here. The Society lay in their stock of wine, which
is of the best quality; good cooks and servants are kept. Dinners go
forward from one to three. You dine a la carte and pay the amount of what
you call for to the waiters. Coffee, liqueurs and all sorts of refreshments
are likewise to be had. Supper, likewise a la carte, goes forward between
nine and eleven. The evening before supper may be employed, if you chuse,
in cards, billiards, or reading. Very pleasant and useful acquaintances are
made at the Ressource, since if a foreigner renders himself agreeable to
the gentlemen who frequent this society, they generally propose taking him
to their houses and introducing him to their families.
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