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Biarritz, France
Type: Other
Status: Closed
Open: 1872, Close: 1916
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| The English had enjoyed Biarritz since 1830. The police closed the first circle they had opened because it had degenerated into a gambling house. The project of a new club received the approval of the authorities in 1872. The club transferred from the street Mazagran to the place of the Town Hall, then settled in the villas Piron then Santamaria.
Finally, on April 6, 1882, the Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria's seventh child laid the first stone.
The building was destroyed by a fire.
Two years later, the building was reborn from the ashes. Its inauguration was accompanied by a ball and a big dinner of two hundred covers .
The Cercle, dissolved in April 1916, was reconstituted under the name of British-American Club the following year.
It will be an important socio-cultural center.
The Cercle worked as a very restricted club English style - place of conviviality, conversation, reading, gambling ... |
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