The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-21
A Series of Norman Watering Place
Letters by E. G. Granville
Murray---No. 6.
Trouville, Relic of the Second
Empire.
Prawns at st. Gouin and Plan for Grand
Combination Government.
French Fashion and French
Economy.

far as Havre and from Havre to these shores by
steamer, along with gale OF wind which had not
been hidden to the feast, but came, nevertheless.
did not leave Etretat without regret; for French
journalists cling to you like those syren water
flowers, which catch you by the leg while bathing
and draw you under. There is no wthstanding
their seductive company. Their talk Is not like
that OF other men, and couple OF days in their
society sends you forth to meet the world with
your views all wrong as II you had got into the
London docks with a tasting order and had tarred
unduly over the port watts.
Before leaving Etretat chronicler took me to
St. Gouin to eat prawns at the hotel kept by one
Mlle Ernestne and to write my name and an
eloquent sentiment In her album. The prawns
were fair, Mile. Ernestine was fairer, and
her album fairest OF all, so much so, indeed,
seeing half the journalists in France had left their
signatures appended to lively sayings on its pages,
felt there was nothing for me to add and left
statement to that effect, much to Mile. Ernestlne's
surprise. Mile. Ernesrine is person whose hotel
and fortunes the guild Of French writer's have set
anoat by sheer force OF pufing and blowing. The
hotel differs in wise from other hotels but it Is
something to be waited upon by lady in peach
silk dress who talks of Dumas Monselet, Noriac
and Villemessant as If she had given birth to them
all, and OF her prawns as If they were brothers to
the said viemessant & 20. My chronicler, having
nothing in particular to do-which seems chronic
complaint with him--volunteered to accompany me
to Trouville, and assured Mle Ernestne that We
were engaged in brewing plan for the reconcilia-
ton of all rival factions OF France into one govern
ment; the Count OF Chambord to reign every Mon
day, the Count Of Paris every Tuesday Napoleon
w. on Wednesdays, THEIRS on Thurs
days, MacMahon and Gambetta on Fridays
and Saturdays respectively, and Sunday
to be free day with no government at all. She
wished US Joy and so did l. and the upshot Oft is
that am here at the Hotel des Roches Noires
watching out OF my window an extremely small
French boy on the beach, making Sport OF an ex-
ccedingly big wave which expect will upset him
presently, along with his wooden spade and his toy
bucket. THERE 1t is just as predicted. The
small boy, in making believe to kick away the sea-
has got merged in brine up to his calves, and
tender mother rushing out from behind stranded
boat has pulled him away and cuffed his ears-thus
adding insult to injury, as the parrot said when
they took him away from his native land and, fur
thermore, made him speak the language Of his OPP
pressors But have not time to moralize as to
whether an oppOrtune cufY on the ears may beget
for bell has just made the passage tuneful, and
my chronicier tells me that breakfast, like tide,
waits Tor no man.
| dCeuner W Jourchette, an afternoon on the
sands and meeting with . dozen acquaintances,
to I'LL up the space ofpaper between this paragraph
and the foregoing Trouvle is not as full as it was
last week. for many legislators have just posted or
to be present at the general scrmmage which Is to
take place in the Assembly on Monday apropos Of
But they have left their wives behind them, and we
were thus but Of the weaker sex to every three
as table ena se
| small boy, came In with red ears and dry stock
to take MS share Of the n and his
! he polished on a beesteak as If he had made o
bet about it. He is boy who will play a. noisy
nred many big guns in his day but then, as his
mother remarked. your father never let his
| me rejecting that the connection between fame
and wet stockings was perhaps less slender than
but sands, and on these sands disport themselves
| yearly all who belong to that newborn putocracv
which the second t EMPIRE hatcned :, AS mentioned
Paris physician, just as Deanyille its suburb,
was launched by the Duke de Morny and his charm
! ing wife, now Duchess OF SeStO. You reach Dean.
vile by bridge over the little river Soucques but
there Is reason for trying to reach 1t, as its vii
offers that saddest and bieakest of aspectsEnew
ruins NJ. de Morny founded town which was
which has not survived him. Trouvilie stood some
risk walking in the the ghQsty steps OF Deanvile
for Its patrons were almost all imperialists, and
ruptcy Court Shortly after the last St. war. But
President Thers took pity on the place and bright
the town hi has revived WED in Consequence. Il is emf
nently gay, clean and expensive. II you come here
way tables on the very afternoon OF your arrival
|; you come with heavy one you Will enjoy the
sensation Of seeing It grow smaller by degrees and
AN INVALID LADY's TOILET.
Trouviile Is fond Of good dressing and gets good
deal OF 1t. lady Of my acquaintance being ordered
here Tor health issued her mandate twelve dres-
Behind time IS she declined to Stir without tSes
she would have remained year-sooner
than be In the humiliating predcament OF having
no new fashions to tread the sands with.
Where Frenchmen get their money is mystery
nearly as difficult to discover as the Northwest pas
sage but they appear always to have their pockets
full of and They make IL stretch 80 that their FIVE
people 1t must be India rubber money, yet per-
haps the only secret OF It's elasticity Is that It Is
save with view to
Thousand pound note anonymously into the poor
box and never shall. II his country calls upon him
folk, he magnincently sends "a, which he calls .
hundred francs, and which rolls on his tongue like
either, and, II he CANDLES at cards, utters such
monumental inter- Elections over the loss OF $50 that
you Sc; n, the sum down as loOo gulneas ana
OF eminent Frenchmen and Frenchwomen have
kindly gone TO work here to rebuild the cottage OF
venerable fisherman whose chattels were re-
moved towards the Atlantic by o hurricane. There
are six and forty OF them about It and they have
subscribed Twelve pounds i've shHlings between
them.
AMUsEMENTs AT TRoUvrLLH
There Is no excuse for being duh In Trouvtle Tor
you may fancy yourself in the Champs Elysees
quarter OF Paris, the sea being substituted Tor the
Bols de Boulogne. The Casino Is small, but THINKS
quite as much Of itself as II It were three
times the sze Then there are historical ex-
cursions.frst to Dives, whence William OF Nor
mandy did not start for the conquest Of England,
though a column there swears that ne did !the
real place was st. Valery sur Somme, hundred
dc Bonneville, where the same William entrapped
Harold into taking his oath that William should
have the crown OF England. Then there are the
Two statues OF st. Arnoult and Lassay, both pic
turesque and antique; and the village OF la
there to 60 and take possession OF his deceased
fathers crown, was a nourisning maritime CITY.
Two churches, dedicated to st. Peter and ST.
Thomas, testify to It's former greatness, ana u Is
impossible to walk through the deserted aisles-n |