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Chatʹtelin’s

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A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II.

“Met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin’s, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there with music and good company … mighty merry till ten at night. The Duke of Monmouth and a great many blades were at Chatelin’s, and I left them there.”—Pepys: Diary, April 22nd, 1668.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.