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The Hôtel de la Païva ("Mansion of La Païva") is a hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, that was built between 1856 and 1866, at 25 Avenue des Champs-Élysées by the courtesan Esther Lachmann, better known as La Païva. [1]
Completed in 1866, it exemplified the opulent taste of the Second Empire, and since 1904, it has been the headquarters of the Travellers Club. Lachmann also inspired the character of the promiscuous, traitorous spy Césarine ("a strange, morbid, monstrous creature") [2] in Alexandre Dumas, fils's 1873 play La Femme de Claude. [3]
The Travellers Club is a private gentlemen's club situated at 106 Pall Mall in London, United Kingdom. It is the oldest of the surviving Pall Mall clubs, established in 1819, and is one of the most exclusive. It was described as "the quintessential English gentleman's club" by the Los Angeles Times in 2004. [1]
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The Travelers' Century Club, or TCC, is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world's countries and territories. The organization was founded in California in 1954 and now has more than 1,400 members throughout the world. [ 2 ]
Tourism in Paris is a major income source. Paris received 12.6 million visitors in 2020, measured by hotel stays, a drop of 73 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The number of foreign visitors declined by 80.7 percent. [ 1 ]
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The Pizzuti Collection museum, formerly UCT headquarters from 1924 to 2008. The Order of United Commercial Travelers was formed on January 16, 1888, by six men in a meeting at the Neil House in Columbus, Ohio to provide a society for traveling salesmen, or commercial travelers.