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Redoute, first modern casino of the continent, in Spa in 1771, was called as such bus Paris had seen to set up towards 1765 of the kinds of establishments or circles where the beautiful world met to play, dance and drink. Voltaire, in his history of Russia, employs the Italian word "ridotti" while speaking about these assemblies. This word was then improperly translated by the gazetiers of the time into Redoute and taken again like such in the French language and well of other languages to qualify the new houses of assembly a little everywhere in Europe. This word will continue its life since one finds it still today in Vienna in the German language but where it indicates celebrates it masked ball which is given each year to the imperial palate: Rudolfina Redoute. The word Redoute, more à.la.mode, were preferred with that of Casino, Italian word (Venice, 1626), indicating the house of assembly less that the house of plays, of put "house", casini "small houses", "country house" and who will quickly become synonymous with vice and perdition, place where all was done that was prohibited. The word Redoute comes us from Italian (1569) Ridotto "refuge, shelter" and of Latin "withdrawn" Reductus, the word indicated in the past a small work of military fortification insulated, of form square. The blockhouses replaced fear them. In its acceptance of place where one gives festivals and balls, it appears in 1752. When in 1760 Lambert Xhrouet became adviser and Co-burgomaster of Spa with Gerard de Leau, of the complaints circulated among noble the bobelins and even near the authorities of the borough, in particular on the inexistence of a sufficiently large and comfortable ball and gaming room in front of the multitude increasingly large of the "curists". The practice of the play with Spa as in the European capitals was largely widespread. The card decks were usually practised there in "living rooms of company" organized more or less well. This former practice, contributed even to the birth and practical with Spa of very an other new use: that of its advertisement by the presentation of its calling card, at the time of its arrival with Spa, with honourable "the curists" who precede. Indeed, these last were printed in Spa often with the back of the charts to play; the format remained. In 1761, the Co-burgomasters of Leau and Xhrouet made issue by the Magistrate the construction of Redoute. The Magistrate decided to build it in the center of the borough. They knew that the construction of such a house of Parliament would make of Spa the holder of the first modern casino of the European continent but they could not guess that this decision was going to be, thirty years later, at the origin of the Revolution inhabitant of Liège of 1793, one century and half later, the headquarters of Kaiser Guillaume II during the First World War and the place of her abdication like, July 16, 1920, the place of the diplomatic conference of repairs ofGermany due to the Allies. And two centuries and half later, it is always one of the major centers of cultural activities and tourist of the life spadoise.
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