E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Chat’telin’s.
A fashionable coffee-house in the reign of Charles II.
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“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.
