Maxim's Of Paris

December, 1961

Maxim's, just off the Place de la Concorde at 3 Rue Royale, is one of the world's famed dining establishments and a cherished mecca for affluent cognoscenti everywhere. Founded at the turn of the century, the restaurant still retains all the flavor of an era long past -- with massive convex mirrors, velvet-covered walls, paintings turned golden with the years. An unobtrusive orchestra can be heard faintly above the well-bred talk and tinkling laughter of the ladies and gentlemen present (at one...