Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-18
PRETTY TROUVILLE.
"A Bit of Gossip From the Famous
French Watering Place.

ICopntght 1889 IN James Gordon Bsnnstt.1
DEANvILLE, August IL New York Herald
Cable-Special to The BEE. There is no
prettier bit of country in all Trouville and it's
environs than the corner where is situated
Des Roches Noires. AS one stands upon the
terrace facing the sea and looks across to
the promontory, there Havre looms up clear
in the sunlight. One has to the left the
Villa Honore and to the right the Mansion
Persane. The Villa Honore is perhaps the
most picturesque of the many fanciful con-
sJructed houses along the beach, and
it has learned the lesson that ''sweet
are the uses of adversity" A
few years ago it was opened
as family casino, sort of rival to the es-
tablshment beyond-the Hotel De Paris
and it was thought that quiet place of this
kind would be appreciated in Trouville. But
quiet places are apt to be dull, and so il
proved with the Villa Honore, the owners of
which then tried to sell some of the gardens
for building purposes, while last year the
Villa Honore was created into a cosmopolitan
mansion where you were taken IN and done
for at withdrawing regard to Trouville
prices during the week--must be regarded
as q very reasonable rate. However, Trou-
vile and Deanvlle are not expensive places
outside of race week, and this, after
all, occupies very brief space
| in season. The Villa Honore
| has, however, been converted into ID private
| residence, and the situation is so good that it
| is one of the incest villas in all Trouville.
! But, attractive as it is, the Princesse de
| Logan, who seems to have quite au eye for
| good stes-as witness her section of ground
| upon which the Villa 1alleyrand has been
~ t., lNNtt 3
| Maison Persiane, which is oue of several
| other villas to the right or west of the hotel.
| On one side of her is the Mason Normande,
| built by the late M. Beer, and at one time
occupied partially by lie Due de la Tremo
| vile, while upon the other side are
| the villas of Comtesse de Courcelles
ana TourmalalSoff, at which latter place quite
happy family was collected three summers
| ago, comprising Nine. de Reutte, Henry
| Rochetort and Mrs. Crawford, of Daily
| News fame. Just beyond this is the Villa
| Amelie which for some time was occupied
| by M. Paul Decauville, who has since be-
| come owner of the Villa Olliffe and at which
| last season Madame Flouquet and Nine.
Jules Ferry spent the best part of the sum
mer. There is but one villa at the other end
of Trouville, and this is the Villa des Flob,
habit of staying. and one can not but help
noticing as a curious fact that whereas M
Theirs aud Marshal MacMahon, when they
were at the head of affairs, never missed
spending part of the summer at Trouville,
it has been entirely stunned by both Grevy
and Carnot. This is all the more singular
because the people of TrouvIlle and Dean
vile have shown most commendable alac-
rity in burning that which they hitherto
adored ana in destroying any vestige of their
devotion to the empire. 1t Is the grand
principle of jumping upon man when he is
down. 1t is perhaps not just but it is the
way of the world, and nowhere is it better
| understood than at Deanville, which owes
its very exisuance to the Due de Marry and
SIR Thomas Olliffe. Perhaps this is
why the Princess de Sagan. who has
remained faithful among the faithless, ha
cast in her lot with Trouyille, which has no
shown quite such ingrattude, and assured.
| those VINO spend their season at the MaisoI
| Persape find their lines cast in pleasant
| places. 1t is an obvious pleasantly that thu
princess should have asked the shah TO come
here from Paris and stay at the Maison in
stead of going TO Baden, but Nine
De Sagau has her villa full, ant
the shah would, to put it mildly
have been rather in the way. 1t was com
planned of at one time that this part of Grou
yette was dull, but this opinion no longer ex
lists, for the pier, which is being constructed
by an English company, and which will be o.
its kind the first ever constructed in France i
rapidly approaching completion. Not only is
pretty structure in itself, with its rotund
for the band, but coming and going steamer
wlll give life to that part of the town.