The New York herald., 1873-09-10

hair ana impossible females (misundefsto0d roam
about at all hours Of the day and night. and the
piano, the harp, sackbut and psaltery, with al
kinds OF music, are never stin there. Etretat has
taken for its motto
'LIBRRrE COMPLETE"
and those who want to know something OF frencn
artist life out holiday should go there. IL has got
Of course its little casino, where the visitors back
bite each other and have out their quarres Or the
sake OF its publicity. Etretat has also an abomi-
nable Shore covered with sharp fints which stab
the feet OF the bather like left open by
accident, with something in the springs which
prevent their shutting up again; and in the
deplorable condition brought about by corns sud
denly cut to the quick with all sorts OF queer mis-
haps. The Etretat fddlers out upon holiday take
their baths in presence OF each other, screaming,
laughing, tumbling, singing, like persons to whom
the immediate contact of cold water IL a surpris-
ing novelty.
HoNFLEUR.
No bathing possible here; but the place is pic
turesque, also dull beyond Imagination. The Hotel
du Cheval Blanc is the best at Honneur, and there
IS fine view OF nothingness to be seen from its
windows. Honfeur was the birthplace OF BinOt-
Paulmier, the first Frenchman who doubled the
Cape OF Good Hope without drowning himself; and
of Daguerre, who taught the sun trick or two in
the way OF portrait painting
PETITEs DALLEs
is in the midst of charming landscape. 1t Is a
capital place, snug, comfortable and cheap but it
has no amusements.
may be all very well by and by, and is situated In
an agreeable spot At present what 1t chiefly
wants Is houses. People, however, who desire to
live with fisherman, chiefly on onions and mus
Sci broth. for seven francs Q day, may do so ut
Pourville
ST. vALERY
collects the ancient nobility OF Normandy to eat
hot, windy cakes in the open air by the seashore,
with an east wind commonly blowing away the
crumbs OF them. The thing may he done near the
Hotel du Grand Cert, where people who have
done 1t are gradually brought to their senses for
seven francs day. and then decamp.
PATRIARCHAL DATHS.
Asnelles, near Bayeux, Is popular resort OF the
Norman peasantry who have become convinced
that they want washing. 1t has sandy shore and
good air. 1t is quite unknown to the tourist 1t
has no hotels, and persons of easy and independent
character may live there on pork and cabbage for
three francs day. Very good pork, too.
GRAND CAMP,
which may be got at by rail, SO that man can be
OF in fy If ne is frightened, Is another Of these
out-ofthe-way baths. 1t is q good bathing place,
with fine sands and satisfactory salad. Nothing
else.
is somewhat gayer. 1t has excellent sands and
an enchanting site. 1t Is one Of the best bathing
places on the Norman coast. Good beds, good
wine and twonder Of wonders fresh fish, are all to
be had at the Hotel de Ia Place for six francs
q day.
Such are the Norman watering places, famous
and obscure.
PARIsIAN VILLAGERS.
What amazes me in these pleasure haunts Is that
such wonderfully old women should venture to
start upon their travels with other capital than
a wrinkled face and false hair. An elderly person
sent for my travelling companion, an ofcer in the
life guards, to pay her hotel bill, without an in
troductionl And I saw another raging about the
salons de societe, all alone, like Gagged panther
lin o wig) because hers was not likely to be paid
But beauty is rare thing in France and possibly
the most ardent lover must dispense with it at q
watering place. The visitors at fashionable sea
baths are everywhere the same. One meets the dis
contented politician, hoping to have found rest and
reaping only i'll temper the officer furlough who
knows nobody, is afraid of compromising him self.
thinking that oil eyes are upon him, and who
smokes all day for an occupation; the emanCi-
pated bachelor lady, with an unknown quantity OF
husbands, who is at present disengaged and heart
free the restless cosmopolite, on good terms with
the waiter and on bad terms with the proprietors,
still looking at forty-hve for pleasure which he
might once have had at home; an nnally the dis
guised bagman, with q book OF samples in his
leather bag, ana clustering Europe, where he
is not recognized, junior partner of the eminent
firm OF "Bunkum & Co." There, too, is the rich
young fool wasting the money which his pawn
broking father wrung out from human wants and
human tears-this delightful creature is probably
an English peer. There likewise Tor unwise) is the
individual OF suspicious reputation, always on the
move, like some hunted animal; there Is the
widow romantic and practical and the spinster,
practical and romantic. There is no great differ
ence between them. 1 am fresh from their COM
pany and saw them all.