From “Guide médical des malades en traitement aux eaux de Vichy , contenant tous les renseignements indispensables aux étrangers pendant leur saison thermale, par A. Mallat,... - 1888 «

"Cercle International (International Circle). Headquarters of the Couses de Vichy (Vichy Races )and the concours Hippique (Equine Competition). The Cercle International is a monument of recent construction. It was built in 1880… Started on February 22, it was inaugurated on July 27 of the same year. It had taken only five months to build a building of considerable importance, or luxury does not give in to anything to taste…
The Cercle International is composed. On the ground floor, there is a superb fair of festivities, which serves as a reading room, and where every week there are offered at the foreign colony balls or artistic festivals, the director's office and a billiard room. reserved for consumers. On the first floor are the gambling room (baccarat, whist,ecarté), the office of the Society of Vichy Races and the Equine Competition, the library and the restaurant room ...
Mr Juretti the owner of the building, who is also the Director of the Circle ...
CONSTITUTION
Art 1st- It was founded in Vichy on April 1st, 1880, a Society which took the name of Cercle International of Vichy.
The number of active members can not exceed one hundred; that of honorary members is unlimited. "

The Cercle was closed in 1911.