The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-10
T r o u WILL E.
The Season at the Fashionable
French Watering Place.
M. Theirs on His vacation-How he il Lodged
and How he Looks-Busines Never So Pros
perous-A Good Harvest and Contsnted
Peasantry-A Visit to the Villages on
tho Shores Of Normandy.

TR0UvILLE, August 20. 18S2
The villa, or rather the chalet Corder now ceIe-
brated as the residence OF the President OF the
French Republic, has been famous for long time
past-at least in the fashionable world The bed
room, with large windows aud furnished in the
style Of the sixteenth century IL celebrity In it,
way. The villa Is the property Of Nine. Cordier. tho
wife Of the Receiver General at Tours and the sister
OF Nine. Galifet the wife Of the Wholesale butcher
Of Communists. Nine. C0rdier Is tho daughter Of
Ladtte, the banker and was formerly married to
the banker Erlanger, and divorced from him By
special decree OF the Pope. She is immensely rich,
both by herself and through her two husbands, and
the President could certainly not have found ct
Trouvtlle a more appropriate residence for
THE HEAD OF THE EXECUTIVE GOvERNMENT.
But apart from the external elegance Of the resi-
dence there is nothing In his manner Of living that
would exceed the style OF living Of a well-to-do
middle class man. He is reported even not to have
brought his cook from Versailles and to be satisfied
with one engaged at the watering place ITSELF He
Is often to be seen walking about along the shore
In company with the Minister Of War, and with
General Forgot and General valaje. He is dressed
always In black, and wears q gray silk hat with
long nap, suoh as English sp0rtsmen used to wear
some twenty five years ago, and such as no one
wears now, except M. Theirs, M. Guizot and Odilon
Barr0t. He came to Trouville for the sake Of hav.
Ing little rest, and consequently tries to avoid
business as much as possible. Still there are daily
several audiences to be given and reports to be
listened to, and big portfolio Is daily brought
from NJ. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, who car
ries on business at Versailles. The grand days
for NJ. Theirs were those OF the artillery
experiments In which he took, as, indeed, he takes
In all military matters. the highest interest He
pranced about the shore where the battery was e.
tabshed, as II he were captain Of thirty years OF
age at the outside, and our elegant ladies' pos
sessed Of husbands Of the same age as M. Theirs
point out to their companions In life the advan-
tages the President has over them in all respects
except size. The variegated toilets exhibited ON
the shore, as well as at the Casino, are something
bewdering. and would make one disbelieve that
we are scarcely out Of q disastrous Invasion, fol-
lowed by civil war, and that we intend living I'M
der an economical Republic. 1t seems as II the
olden days Of the Empire had come back again, and
the presence OF ladies like the Countess of Pour
tales and Madame Magnan Is calculated only to
strengthen such belief ,I The which
Hilalre, remains still theme for all sorts OF jokes.
The other day went to Treport, and the first cues
you come from Trouvile, what is Monsieur e
os m ne taking ms ss 0ass 1
SELL or M n.nes aSp 'a akl 'nem LOT
Az matter of course we have some racing here
and endless picnic parties, but the President ID net
days Of Deauville races balls were given at the
Casino, but I must avow that neither tho oedw
towns and watering places enjoyed the dance
much: At about ten O'Clock several OF the Partisan
ss the
ALONG THE SHORES OF NORMANDY.
Now ,s and then % %as
tied nearly every village Of the shores Of Normandy
and these visits beget stronger and stronger
something quite marvellous. The peasants OF Nor
mandy are rather shrewd and hard people, but even
SS al t as s
have already fallen IN price about twenty per cent?
+ Ss sq Ss s
ing generally notice remarkable
c0NTENrMENr OF EVERYBODY AND EVERY ONE.
Trades people OF TrOuvile made fortunes under
the Empire and were always complaining about
the progress Of business and now they they are
does the money come froma one is unable to I'M
derstand. Shops at Trouvllle, except the pastry
cook OF La Grande Rue where the brilliant ladies' OF
tartelettes Ia creme were never so crowded as they
are now. Is it the two years. standstl and desoa-
some magical improvement attributable to causes
that will be probably known only later.
Should you ever chance to visit Trouville, don't
miss walk to Honneur I'll really the prettest sight
that the coast Of ao.ds pay after DAY do
Trouviie and Honneur, and whose statue has now
been taken away from us pcueSCal anu uluueU
somewhere. He surely did not deserve a monu-
ment as man, but did deserve 1t as q patron Of
these two now delightful watering places. At
Etretot. which is also close by, you can see some
thing of celebrities that do not about politics
and the President. These are endless artistes,
singers painters, literary men, and you can often
see Faure walking close by Onenbach.
A STUPID JOKE
The story about which has been made so much
noise Of some gentlemen on yachting excursion
having cried, "vtue rEnoperelri q bas ThterSr' IL
quite stupid one and certainly did not deserve the
tpln0raDhn0 hOnOred
The foreigners M. Ephrassi, M. Errazzu and M.
Rumine had lunch on board-a good lunch, 1t
seems, and we'll washed down-and thought 1t q
good joke to Brighten the coast guard with such ex
CARNATIONS. The coast guard did not get fright
ened, but arrested them on their landing, and the
Cor,nstssdtre OF Police sent them before the Pro-
c,tre,tr and that was all. II Prince Or0f had not
found it necessary to interfere on account OF NJ.
Rumine's yacht being Russian vessel the whole
thing would have passed unnoticed.
SPAIN SHOWING HER STRENGTH.