leboucher's

Updated: May 8, 2025

Leisure, the most valuable coin of humanity in the tropics, was spent by white or brown in pleasure or idleness with a prodigality that would have made Samuel Smiles weep. The entrance to the Cercle Bougainville was very plain, with no name-plate, as had the Militaire, a mere hole in the front wall of Leboucher's large furniture shop.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.