Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The in-door accommodation at Yichy is superior to that met with at the generality of the French baths. No less than seventy hotels, and as many lodging-houses, were specified by name in a local guide published some years ago, and the number has increased since that time. The principal hotels are in the park, or in its immediate neigh¬ bourhood. On one side are the old-established houses, Gruillermin, de Paris, des Bains (lately enlarged), &c. ; on the opposite side are the Hotels des Princes, de la Paix, and the large, new, luxuriously-furnished hotel, du Parc. Among the other chief hotels may be mentioned des Ambas- sadeurs (also enlarged and renovated), de Pichelieu, and de Pome. The Hotels du Parc, de la Paix, and Gruillermin, are those mostly frequented by English visitors. All the chief hotels have spacious dining rooms, in which from sixty to a hundred or more persons dine at the tables d’hote, as also well-furnished saloons, where those of the inmates who are so disposed meet and pass the evenings. By this means, and the interchange of visitors between the different hotels, oppor¬ tunities of association are afforded greater than at the German baths, which have only their public cursaals, and where there is a more indiscriminate ! mixture of company than at Yichy, which is / mostly frequented on the score of health. There ^ are, moreover, public balls weekly, frequent con¬ certs, dramatic representations, and other entertain¬ ments in the casino, where a musical band plays also in the evening, as in the park in the afternoon.