Console and pair of Louis XIV style consoles, XIXe

The history of circles:
            At the beginning of the century Paris had five large circles, essentially worldly and aristocratic. Four participate intimately in the life of the boulevard: The union, boulevard des Capucines, the Jockey Club, Boulevard des Capucines, The union Artistic, known as “l’Epatant”, rue Boissy d’Anglas and le Circle of Street Royal. The fifth is the Agricultural Circle, called “potatoes” future New Circle which was located on Boulevard Saint-Germain when the century began, and is still there. All have their history, all have had varying fortunes and three out of five survive today, the Circle of Rue Royale having merged with the New Circle and in 1915 the Artistic Union with the same Circle in 1945.
There are many Circles on the boulevards and in the adjacent streets, gaming circles, and small gambling dens monitored by the police as there have always been in the Opera and Palais Royal districts.
            The Agricultural Circle: he is not a boulevardier but will become a little by absorbing, in 1916, the  Circle of Rue Royale and, in 1946, the Circle of the Artistic Union, called “l'Epatant”, he, essentially Parisian.
Le Agricultural Circle, created by squires and landowners, in 1835, occupied an apartment on rue de Beaune from where he moved into a beautiful building, 288 boulevard Saint-Germain. The architect is Henry Blondel who moved to the office of Henri Labrouste (architect of the National Library, rue Richelieu). Henry Blondel is known for having created the beautiful Jardinière, the stock exchange and the Continental Hotel. Its first merger will modify its title and it will become New Circle of Rue Royale and its merger with the Artistic Union  will do it New Circle,  but the elders will continue to call it the Circle of Potatoes.
Since 1835, the Duke of Doudeauville, the Count of Chastellux, the Baron de la Tour de Pin, the Count of Mortemart, the Duke of Doudeauville, the Marquis de Mortemart, Count F. de Brissac, the Duke de Mortemart, the Count of Talhouet Roy, the Marquis C. de Beaumont, the Duke of Maillé.
            Le New Circle has a very rich library thanks to the contributions of Circle of Rue Royale and especially the Artistic Union. He has a special stand in Auteuil.