I included this drink in The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level after discovering it in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's posthumously published 1934 book World Drinks and How to Mix Them. Unfortunately, I was not able to trace its origins back from that book. Boothby expert John C. Burton noted that many of the recipes in it appear to have been added by ghostwriters, as it is much expanded from his immediately prior book, Swallows.
I called the drink the Boulevardier 1934 to distinguish it from the earlier bourbon-based drink found in Harry McElhone's 1927 book Barflies and Cocktails.
Thanks to the research of French cocktail blogger Gaylor Olivier of The Perfect Drink, we can now retitle it the Boulevardier 1929. Based on the information he discovered in a book from that year, Cocktails de Paris by "Rip" (real name Georges Gabriel Thenon), we can assign this drink to 'Robert from Viel', a now defunct Parisian bar located at the time at number 8 Boulevard de la Madeleine. M. Robert took the grand prize with it at the barmen's championship which took place at Theatre Apollo in Paris on February 2, 1929.
To my delight, a full PDF download of this book is available from EUVS.org. The drink list:
- A.B.C.
- Acacias
- Agonie
- Alexandra [with gin]
- Alexandra [with brandy]
- Alligator
- Alma
- Amarosa
- Amaros-Flip
- Anti-Grippe
- Argentina
- L'Arpète
- Atlantique
- Barbaresque
- Bees' Knees
- Belle Aurore
- Belote
- Berry
- Biarritz
- Bidou
- Biribi
- Blue Cocktail
- The Blue Moon
- Boeuf Sur Le Toit
- Bogey
- Boulouris
- Bronx
- Boulevardier
- Camparinete
- Canaletto
- Ceon de Pau
- Ce Sour Ou Jamais
- C'est Vert...Mais Juste
- Chambourny
- Charlie Pie
- Chinois
- Charme de Paris
- Chateau Basque
- Un Chien Qui Rapporte
- Cigalon
- Close-Up
- Cocktail De Mon Cure
- Colorado
- Cocktail Père...Cocktail Fils
- Cote D'Emeraude
- Coup de Cafard
- Crabe
- Coup De Roulis
- Crepescule
- Croisette
- Crawl
- Cur
- Dernier Round
- Dech Gerard's
- Deux Fraises
- Diana
- Diki
- Dompteur
- La Douche Ecossaise
- L'Eau Du Nil
- Etchê-Spi
- Et Moi, Je Te Dis...Maud
- Extase Voluptueuse
- Fandango
- Faul Ce Qu'il Faut
- La Femme Du Monde
- La Fin Du Monde
- Fiesole
- Flammes De Velours
- Francis
- Flash Cocktail
- For You
- ?
- French Cocktail
- Friday Velvet
- Frisco-Shangai
- Frisson
- Gin Fizz
- El Gaucho
- Gloria
- Green
- Green Star Cocktail
- Huguette
- El Guarani
- Une Idee
- Innovation
- Isabelita
- Jean De La Lune
- Jorio
- Josette
- Jungle
- Katinka
- Kiki
- 60° Latitude
- Liliane
- Lit Nuptial
- Lucien-Gaudin
- La Madone
- Madame Lou
- Manhattan
- Martini
- Mandarin
- Mandarinette
- Michodiere
- Mon Peche
- Montigny
- Moony Cocktail
- La Negresse Blonde
- Once More
- Oronoff
- Oxygenee Cocktail
- Oyster Cocktail
- Oyster Cocktail Aux Oursins
- Pacific
- Paris
- Paris-Midi
- Pepa
- Petit Paien
- Pirate
- Poor Dear Old Thing Cocktail
- Primavera
- Primos
- Prise Directe
- Prunella
- P'tite Lily
- Les Petits Pois
- Quickly
- Raidime
- Ranett
- Rase-Mottes
- Ready?—Go!
- Regrets Infinis
- Reve D'Alsace
- Ricquebourg
- Rose [with gin]
- Rose [without gin]
- Rose-Marie
- Rose Mousse
- Rose Riviera
- Rose Du Roy
- Rose Des Vents
- Rototo
- Sans Façon
- Satyre
- Le Sim
- Six Cylindres
- Side Car
- Sourire Commercial
- Tip-Toes
- Ton Corps Est A Toi
- Transitoire
- Trois Jeunes Filles Nues
- Trou Dans Le Mur
- Tunnel
- Tito
- Tutti Frutti
- Urodonal's Cocktail
- Ursulines
- Vel D'Hiv
- Weiluc
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