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Dining room, Claridge's Hotel, 74 avenue des Champs-Elysées, sometime between 1923 and 1931. Photo by Séeberger (frères).

Source:
Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (archives photographiques) diffusion RMN (photo no. FSK51-04 ):
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Gaito Gazdanov's Paris / 5

The bank director

An impeccably-dressed gentleman, whom I drove from Claridge’s hotel to the gare de Lyon, handed me a hundred-franc note.

When I told him I didn’t have enough change he said he would get some, left – and never returned; he was a respectable-looking character, with white hair, smoked a good cigar and reminded me of a bank director – perhaps he was one. [23]