Jockey-Club de Paris the fashionable Grand Café. There, on 28 December 1895, a stylish crowd in the "Salon Indien" attended the public début of the Lumière brothers' invention, the cinematograph. The Jockey Club is directed by an annually-elected committee of a president, four vice-presidents and twenty-five members. New members are sponsored by two current members and must receive five-sixths of the members' votes. Under the patronage of the Jockey Club, the "Prix du Jockey Club" (1,500,000 euros) has been run at the Chantilly Racecourse (at the foot of the Château de Chantilly) on the first Sunday in June since 1836. The race at
Prix du Prince d'Orange Prix du Prince d'Orange The Prix du Prince d'Orange is a Group 3 flat horse race in France open to three-year-old thoroughbreds. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,000 metres (about 1¼ miles), and it is scheduled to take place each year in September. The event is named after William of Orange (1840–1879), the eldest son of William III of the Netherlands. The Prince became a member of the Jockey-Club de Paris in 1863, and took up racehorse ownership shortly before his death. The Prix du Prince d'Orange was established in 1882. It was originally open to