Google Earth Community: Restaurant Pub D'Orsay, Quebec City

Restaurant Pub D'Orsay appears to serve an utterly droll, fajita-friendly menu but promises "ample linen ... an immense antique stone fireplace and a breathtaking view of both City Hall and the Quebec Basilica", and even more interestingly owes its name and top-hat logo to one of the quirkly legends of Edwardian England.

Known as "the last of the dandies", Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay was the artist son of one of Napoleon's generals and, on his mothers' side, a grandson of the king of Württemberg.

"D'Orsay would employ two men to carry his dressing case, changed his heavily perfumed dog-skin gloves six times a day, had his tailor make trousers for his pet pigeons and would pay a boy a guinea a pop to light his cigars," according to a June 2006 article in The Guardian.

Read more about him and the absolutely scandalous goings-on with the Earl of Blessington and the Countess of Blessington, and Lord Byron too, here or in Nick Foulkes biography, "Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay", or you can see my blog post here. (No, he's no relation.)

The pub's website is here.

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