The Gentleman's Cercle

(Also known as the Casino)
Although these men are playing checkers, and not playing cards for money, the atmosphere is similar to that of the cercle, though a bit less formal.

 

The Parisian Salon was no place for a real man. s

The masculine bourgeois gentleman was not lead in the discussion of art and other similar topics by a Salonnière over tea with other occupation-less dilettantes. The masculine bourgeois took spirits whilst participating in the manly act of gambling his family's fortunes away. Such was the life of the Gentleman's Cercle, also known as the Casino.

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