[Gerben42]

Hi all,

With high probability I will be spending some weeks in Paris for work, and I'm looking for pointers where one can play bridge there. I am especially looking for high standard pair games and rubber bridge games.

Thanks in advance for any help

[olien]

There's a club a few blocks from Trocadero. Some juniors also play there on occasion. There are some other clubs, but I'm less familiar with those.

[keeper2]

Owen is referring to Bridge Club St Honore, Avenue Raymond Poincare.

I only visit Paris for meetings that do not finish predictably early enough to play, but one trip I stayed at a neighboring hotel and kibbed a couple of hands. Only about ten tables, but the standard seemed fairly high. I think one of the Bessis family is involved at least in a teaching capacity.

Oddly a couple of weeks ago I was surprised to see among the chess players in the Luxemburg gardens a bridge table complete with bidding boxes, not only offline bridge, but outdoors bridge!