Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-08-25

shore was trod by the feet of the
Forty Immortals, who then only be-
longed to the Orleans party, and by
deposed statesmen. The imperial
court had abandoned Dieppe and gone
to Biarritz, but that was too far from
Paris for the lesser officials and the
busy men of the party to follow. And
Trouville offered a bathing place with
in six hours of Paris So it came
about that villas were built and a
square foot Of sand soon cost as much
in Paris itself Very soon it was the
favorite resort of the monde and the
demi-monde.
The real life of Trouville, of course,
is closed to the merely passing visitor,
just as is the case at Cowes and at
Newport. The passing caller has not
the entree to the salons and the vii
las. But he may see that the people
change their toilets every hour, he
may walk the promenade and the
beach, firm and smooth, which slopes
so slowly into the sea that the bather
must wade far to get into water to
his neck, even at hign tide and he
may visit the Casino, so close to the
sea that the great tide of 1876 almost
swept it away.
Dieppe shows a seascape that is
called 'inexpressibly grand" The Wis
| itor seats himself upon the terrace
! and looks seaward over a glorious
and far-stretching expanse. Some
times it is as calm as a mirror. But
the tide never creeps in. 1t brings
waves and foam with it. Often it is
turbulent. Sometimes it comes in as
raging plain that lifts Itself at last
| mountain high and thunderously
dashes itself upon the shore and filings
| its salt showers over the spectators.
1t is splendid for the eye and it
! gives vigor to the body.
Napoleon played with Josephine,
| pushing her into the water, and hiding
her bathing slippers, to the amuse-
ment of the boatmen and the onlook-
ing staff, in their bathing expeditions
in 1903 from Bayonne to Biarritz, that
| bright little corner of France, nest.
ling at the foot Of the Pyrenees, over
looking the Bay of Biscay and ad.
joining the Basque provinces of Spain
There are memories here of the
Empress Eugenie also. On the slope
| and overhanging the great rocks at
| the head Of the bay are the ruins OF
the bathing villa, where she and
Louis Napoleon spent many happy
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burned in 1908. There are many his
torical memories here. Gladstone
spent weeks here each year. Many
battles were fought in the vicinity in
the Wellington campaigns and the
| Spanish provinces adjacent are full oi
"reminiscences of Loyola and Xavier.
Ostend-to the initiated that means
the most beautiful strand to be con
ceived, as smooth as a billiard table
and stretching away many a league
1t means also in the summer months
a most diverting spectacle. where
dandies mince and flirt even with the
waves, where bathing, dancing, ga
ming and music occupy the fashion
able world, and where the vast
throngs present a gay and cheerful
miscellany of faces and costumes.
This most important seaside town
on the continent of Europe has its
palatial villas. including the summer
residence of the king; its sports, polo
golf, tennis, racing, its great annual
"bataille de fieurs," it's promenades
and around all its beach, a paradise
for children, and it's bath houses, sc
great novelty for Americans. Above
all, 1t has its kursail, the center oi
all the gaieties of the season, which
gives the visitor who sees it for the
] first time most confused impression
of marbles and mosaics, brass, copper
and gliding, rich hangings, palms and
mirrors. The dixie or "digue" which is
built along the beach is three-mile
promenade, and at night the spectacle
seen upon II justifies the saying that
Ostend Is the maddest. merriest" city
in Europe,
Every country has It's seashore re
sorts, some of theEi rs famous as
Barritz and Brighton. Bray. II
County Wicklow. is the Brighton oI