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[CLUB DES CENT]. History, Bulletins, etc. Paris, 1931-1956. …
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[CLUB DES CENT]. History, Bulletins, etc. Paris, 1931-1956. …
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
[CLUB DES CENT]. History, Bulletins, etc. Paris, 1931-1956. 7 volumes in-4 bound, 3 volumes in-8, 2 volumes and 3 miscellaneous items. A fine set of publications by this gastronomic club.
This very elitist club was founded in 1912 by three friends, Lamberjack, Caspari and Forest, who "put together, in a small booklet, some reliable information, which owed nothing to advertising, fashion or fads"; very quickly, the idea of developing it took shape, and it became the "Club des Cent".
Louis Forest (1872-1933) was the Club's perpetual president. We will remember some of his maxims, which were used to draw up the club's statutes: "Taste must be saved", "Down with gelatine", "No chemical extracts", "A cook is not a worker, he's an artist", "Anyone who doesn't keep a few good bottles for connoisseurs behind the faggots is just a vile gargotier", etc.
With a print run of just 150 to 300 copies on fine paper, this luxury magazine was founded in early 1928 by Étienne Chiron and continued by René Millaud.
The avowed aim of this club of "serious motoring tourists" was to free its members "from all the false information in guidebooks that [...] recommend infamous clubs and unspeakable gargotes". In fact, this publication now provides excellent documentation, particularly iconographic (thousands of photographs), on the club's cultural and gastronomic activities: events and trips, chefs, restaurants, vineyards, wineries, tables served, groups and the most remarkable personalities; songs to liven up banquets; texts of speeches and addresses, previously unpublished recipes, and reproductions of very fine original menus (Maxim's, Prunier, Ritz, Claridge, Tour d'argent, Lucas-Carton, Normandie liner, Pré Catelan, Café de Paris, Lapérouse, Meurice, Crillon, Plaza Athénée, etc.), illustrated on the covers by the best artists of the day (Sem, G.Arnoux, Yves Brayer, J.P. Rémon, Mathurin Méheut, Charles Martin, Louis Icart, etc.).
This set includes the following volumes:
Historical part :
- René MILLAUD (Club Archivist). History of a gastronomic club in the 20th century. I. Events. Propaganda. [Copy n°183 (of 200), printed on Arches paper].
- MARTEAU (Paul) and René MILLAUD. Justin Laurens Frings president of the Clud des Cent... 1950. [Copy no. 84 of 87, specially printed for Emile Vuillermoz].
Bulletins du Centiste (7 volumes out of 15). All volumes are illustrated with colour figures, pasted photographic prints and numerous menus in and out of the text. Bulletin(s) n° 4 (1931), 5 (1932), 6 (1933), 8 (1935), 12 (1939-1946), 13 (1947-1951), 14 (1952-1956).
Yearbook(s). 1939 - 1948 - 1951. 3 volumes in-8, burgundy publisher's binding.
Miscellaneous documents:
- Le Petit Centiste. N°1 - Théatre. April 1936. La Revue du Club des Cent, 1 act and a prologue. Fascicule in-4, 38 pp. with photographs.
- JEAN MARIE. La Cuisine à la mer. Speech given by M. Jean Marie, President of the Cie Transatlantique at the honorary dinner of the Club des Cent in the Salons of the Hôtel Crillon, 28 June 1947. Small in-8, [32] pp. with illustrations, paperback.
- La Revue du Club des Cent. On the "Liberté". [8 December 1950]. 68 pp. typewritten with handwritten additions.
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About the sale
Gastronomy - A collection of menus
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Auction time
06/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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