Hotel du Parc Lardy, Vichy = Kasher = Menu... / L.-M. Lévy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hôtel du Parc Lardy (Vichy, Francy), issuing body.

Contributor:

Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Jewish cooking--19th century.

Jewish cooking.

Menus--France--Vichy--19th century.

Menus.

Genre:

Menus.

Physical Description:

[1] leaf : illustrations ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

Vichy : [publisher not identified], 1894

Biography/History:

The Hôtel du Parc Lardy in Vichy, built during the 19th century in the center of the town, would later become known as the apartment and offices of Phillipe Pétain under the Vichy Regime during World War II, and the offices of Prime Minister Pierre Laval after 1942; the hotel did not reopen after the war.

Summary:

Printed form for the kosher menu at the Hôtel du Parc Lardy at the spa town of Vichy, France (printed "כשר", with eight lines for handwriting the menu, with the name of proprieter L.M. Lévy printed at lower left; verso a blank form for menus from the Frand Restaurant de Nice, 1. Rue St-François-de-Pani.

Notes:

Illustrated, showing ducks, wine, and flora; die-cut round (top).

Local Notes:

Rare Book Collection Misc Print Collection box 18 no 5 : purchased at auction (Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), auction 02 (2020 June 9) lot 11 (Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections); inscribed with a menu in blue ink ("Consommé et soupe du jour... Boeuf à la Windsor... Pigeons aux petits pois... Veau rôti... Tartes aux abricots"); verso without writing.

OCLC:

1580997609