o-1968: It was rare for members of the Club or guests to come to the restaurant or bar accompanied b
o-1968: It was rare for members of the Club or guests to come to the restaurant or bar accompanied by a woman, but it did happen. In fact, providing they were accompanied, women were not only allowed into the restaurant and bar at Roissy, but were also permitted to go up to the rooms. The man who brought them was not asked to pay any supplement, aside from their drinks and their meals, and was not asked to give their names. The only difference, under these circumstances, between Roissy and an ordinary short-time hotel was that, at Roissy, you were obliged to take, at the same time as you took a room, a girl. In the large, overheated room, along one of whose walls was a series of ferns and giant phiodendrons which made the room smell faintly like a greenhouse, the women took off their overcoats, and sometimes the jackets of their suits. Their self-assurance, which perhaps concealed their uneasiness; their curiosity that they tried to disguise by their insolence; their smiles, which they tried to make haughty and contemptuous and which, in many cases, surely corresponded to real contempt, infuriated the girls and greatly amused the Roissy regulars, be they Masters or guests. A repost about Roissy Masters bringing a “free” woman to the Chateau for drinks and dinner. -- source link
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