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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887

Author: Various

Editor: F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Release Date: July 19, 2008 [eBook #26089]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 93

SEPTEMBER 24, 1887.

Illustration: RECORD OF THE SESSION--422.

AKERS-DOUGLAS }
COLONEL WALROND } Dead Heat.
BARON HENRY DE WORMS }

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SALUBRITIES ABROAD.

_Royat Improved._--I have said Royat ought to be rebuilt. The Grand
Hotel is of a sort of Doll's House order of architecture, splendid
front, no depth to speak of, and built on so steep an ascent that it is
hoisted up at the back like a lady's skirt by a dress-improver. _Beau
site_ all the same, and magnificent view.

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Last year the Hotel Continental formed part of a group of hotels--which
seemed to have been the result of some violent volcanic eruption, when
the mountain threw up several hotels, and left them there anyhow--is at
present separated from the Splendide and its other former companions by
an impromptu wall, and from all its front windows it commands varied,
beautiful, and, on the Clermont-Ferrand side, extensive views. It has a
pleasant garden, a most enjoyable terrace, and it only wants to be in
the hands of a firmly fixed and intelligent management to make it quite
the best hotel in Royat.