Petite marmite. Sole Reichenberg. Caneton à la presse. Salade de saison. Fonds d'artichauts à la Reine. Bombe pralinée. Petits fours. Panier fleuri. The _panier fleuri_ he carved himself at table from an orange. Joseph became homesick, for he was a thorough Parisian, and went back eventually to the Marivaux, but he soon after died. [Illustration: JOSEPH CARVING A DUCK _After a drawing by Paul Renouard_] The directors of the Savoy Company, which owns the Berkeley and Claridge's as well as the Savoy Hotel, brought jolly, genial, rosy-faced M. Jules, under whose rule the Berkeley had prospered exceedingly, from that white-faced hotel to the Savoy, and his rule on the Thames Embankment was as successful as it had been in Piccadilly. It was during his managership that the additions that were to give the entrance on to the Strand were planned, and, I fancy, were begun, and when M. Jules left the Savoy to make for himself a restaurant and hotel in Jermyn Street, M. Renault, from the Casino at Biarritz, came to the Savoy Restaurant, and the quick-witted M. Pruger became general manager. This was a period of great activity and of many alterations in the building. No Savoy manager has ever had more brilliant inspirations for great feasts than M. Pruger had. The gondola dinner was one of his ideas and he always thought of something novel and amusing for the Christmas and New Year's Eve parties. M. Renault is now in Rome at the hotel there owned by the Savoy Company; M. Pruger was tempted away to America to manage a mammoth restaurant on modern lines, but came back from New York to take over the management of the Royal Automobile Club when its great club-house in Pall Mall was opened. M. Gustave, of the russet beard, who had steered the newly built Café Parisien of the Savoy to great success, next became manager of the hotel, and that brings us down to the history of to-day, for when he resigned his appointment M. Blond, the present manager, succeeded him. XLIII THE DUTIES OF A _MAÎTRE D'HÔTEL_ I have mentioned in the previous chapter that Joseph wrote me a sprightly letter on the duties of a _maître d'hôtel_. This is it: