The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-08-12

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 we're built and q
square foot Of sand soon cost as much
as a square foot Of building ground
In Paris itself. Very soon 1t was the
favortte 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 viii
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 1t away.
Oeppe shows a seascape that is
called 'in%expressibly grand" The Wis
itor seats himself upon the terrace
and looks seward over a glorious
and far-stretching expanse. Some
times 1t Is IS calm as a mirror. But
the tide never creeps in. 1t brings
waves and foam with 1t. Often 1t is
turbulent. Sometimes 1t ONE in as
a 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 1t
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 1908 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 Eugene 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
hours. 1t was sold, then enlarged and
burned in 1908. There are many his
torical memories here. Gladstone
spent weeks here each year. Many
were fought In the vicinity in
the Wellington campaigns and the
Spanish provinces adjacent are full Of
"reminiscences of Loyola and Xavier.
Ostend-to the initiated that means
the most beautiful strand to be con-
as smooth as a billiard table
and stretching away many a league.
It e also in the summer months
a most diverting spectacle, where
dandies mince and firt even with the
waves, where bathing, dancing, ga
ming and music occupy the fashion
world, and where the vast
present a gay and cheerful
of faces and costumes.
This most important seaside town ]
IN the continent of Europe has its
villas, including the summer
residence of the king; its sports, polo,
golf, tennis. racing, its great annual
'bataille de deurs." its ~promenades, '
md around all its beach, a paradise
or children, and its bath houses, SO
yreat a novelty for Americans. Above I
Ill, 1t has its kursaIl, the center OF '
Ill the gaieties Of the season, which I
gives the visitor who sees 1t for the I
irst time a most confused impression
# marbles and mosalcs. brass, copper I
md gliding, rich hangings, palms and t
mirrors. The dixie or "digue" which is I
,uilt along the beach Is a three-mile t
and at night the spectacle
cen upon 1t justifes the saying that 1
)stend is the maddest, merriest' city t
Europe. q
Every country has its seashore re- t
orts, some of then as famous as {
and Brighton. Bray, In
Wicklow. ID the BRIGHTON Of G