The French Club was born in 1866 as a result of the meetings that the French residents performed at the legendary Café Malakoff, located in Good Order (Bernardo de Irigoyen today) between Victoria (today Hipólito Yrigoyen) and Potosi (Alsina today). In 1884 he founded the French Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Trade Chamber first that took the country. Prominent businessmen driving that origin occupied the club. The Architect Ulric Courtois in 1884, builder of the Basilica of Luján, Dr. Miguel Laphitzondo, French Hospital Medical Director, Dr. Francis Simon, Medical and intellectual who founded the Alliance Francaise in 1893, Dr. Joseph Linieres, President of the National Academy of Medicine, the architect Charles Thays, Director of Parks and Walking the City of Buenos Aires, who works must include the Botanical Gardens, the historian and journalist Paul Groussac, former Director of the National Library are part of its history. From 1889 he began to celebrate the French national holiday Club of France and Argentina, attending on behalf of the National Government to the first celebration Dr. Carlos Pellegrini, then Vice President, who in 1891, and as President , had the initiative t
