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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
rs, in the Promenade du Peyrou and in the Place de la Canourgie,—the last named resort not then laid out with trees and flowers, as the visitor now finds it. Young Richard Gordon was often his companion. He was frequently at the house of Professor Martins in the Jardin des Plantes, dining with him from time to time, enjoying his daughter's playing on the piano, and listening to the band which played on Friday evenings in the Jardin. He was invited to the sessions of the Friday Club, Societe du Vendredi, and here met the literary and scientific men of the city. Sumner, writing to C. F. Adams, described the club as founded as long ago as 1811, by the celebrated botanist De Candolle, which has among its members two or three professors, several retired men of letters, two or three judges of the Supreme Court, one banker, and several proprietors. This description may remind you of the Friday Night Club of Boston. But the sumptuary law of the Montpellier club is strict. The entertai