The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-31
BY GEORGE ADAM.
Especial Correspondence).
DeauviIIe, Saturday.

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~ builder Of Babylon by the sea
HE started low down and has
risen lower" This would be by far too
summary an epitaph to place upon the
gravestone Of the little man, who even
now after years of success has more
often waited on than sat at table. Cor
.-<.ohe, the Resort King Of Europe, in
spite Of his intensely French nature, is
a type more commonly found in Amer
lea than in France.
Some folk take sword to open the
oyster that is the world; Cornuche did
the trick with table napkin and has
found more pearls than most people
inside it, His father kept small work
mans drinking counter in Paris and
the three sons set out into the world
with no greater instruction than is to
be acquired by the rapid serving OF
beer, wines and spirits and with no
more belongings than the walters
livery. They drifted southwark to
waiting after some years Of hard work,
in which they went through every sec
ton OF hotel and restaurant activity,
having by dfnt OF that thrift Of which the
French are capable saved up thirty thou
sand francs, they came back to Paris and
started a small restaurant Of their own.
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so much of a success that when the
famous Maxim's was looking round for
d malcre d'hotel to revive its dropping
fortunes, Cornuche was the man chosen.
From the famous night restaurant in
the Rue Royale he soon extended his
influence to the Ambassadors. and
then went in pursuit of his customers
during the holiday months at the sea-
side, first at Trouville, then at Deau-
vile, and at Cannes. He is a man OF
quick judgment, a good picker of men,
and in addition to these Napoleonic
qualities, has the equally Napoleonic
defect of hasty temper. He has al
most completely altered the character
Of the great fashionable watering
places. Before his day, indeed until
the war, Monte Carlo represented the
high or low water mark of European
luxury, extravaganza, vice, and TO-
mantle sinfulness. Now Monte Carlo
when compared with Deauville, has al
most the moral austerity of Y M. G. A
settlement. Cannes, once the quietest
and most exclusive spot on the Riviera,
where hotels were looked upon as vul-
gar intrusions, where nearly every one
lived in the quiet privacy Of their
villas, is now become a great roaring
catherine wheel of women and cards.
II.
Deauville is Cornuche's greatest
achievement. Only a few years back It
was nothing but an elegant suburb of
Trouville There were the villas Of the
wealthy sporting people Of France and
England who came down every year to
attend the yearlings sales at Trouville.
The local politics Of Trouville no less
than Cornuche's bad temper, led to a
revolt Cornuche decided with Napo-
leonic rapidity to desert furnishing
Trouville, whose success he had him
self insured; to build a casino next
door to Deauville. In the twinkling
OF an eye he found the necessary capt.
tai, and within two years Deauville
was already marked upon the map as
a separate and rival establishment to
Trouville. The fight between the two
resorts has ended in the complete
triumph of Cornuche, and Deauville to-
day is without any question the solar
plexus of fashion by the sea.
There is more vice and less virtue,
more clothes and less covering, to the
square inch in Deauville than in any
other place throughout the world. The
season lasts for barely three weeks and