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— would not be recognised by tlie So(?.iete d'Enconrao;e- 

 ment in the olficial ' Calendrier ; ' but tliey serve, never- 

 theless, to show how the French have come on witli 

 their horse-racing since the establishment of that 

 energetic association in 1833. 



By the w\ay, opportunity may here be taken for 

 mentioning the succession of secretaries to whom the 

 Societe have been so much indebted since its foundation. 

 Mr. T. Bryon himself probably acted in that capacity at 

 first ; but in 1837, wJien the Club was at JSTo. 2 Eue 

 Grange-Bateliere, the office was filled by M. Joseph 

 Grandhomme. In 1848 the Club had so expanded that, 

 it would seem, there were two secretaries required ; 

 M. Grandhomme remained secretary to the Societe 

 d'Encouragement, and M. Groszos (who died, aged 68, 

 in December 1883) appears to have become secretary 

 or assistant secretary to the Jockey Club (Cercle). M. 

 Grandhomme (who died at 79 years of age on April 10, 

 1885) retired in 1877, and was succeeded by his 

 son, M. Georges Grandhomme (the most urbane and 

 considerate of correspondents, as the author of this 

 work wishes to testify), who died about eighteen months 

 before his father and was succeeded by the present 

 secretary, M. G. Madelaine. 



