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Title: France from sea to sea
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Riggs, Arthur Stanley
Subjects: France -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Boulogne, a paradise playground, thehomiest of summering places in France, where chil-dren of all ages disport themselves upon one of thewidest and cleanest beaches I ever saw. The young-sters who fly their kites, build sand castles and paddleabout in the beach pools, are most of them as Britishas the staid matrons reading in the tiny striped tentsthat give a dash of brilliant color to the scene. Naturally, with so many true Britons in town,Wimereux is full of tea rooms—^big and little, fineand shabby, suited to every sort of pocket. Oneafternoon we spent a pleasant hour in a great, square,glass-fronted room facing on two streets, with win-dows full of the most appetizing plum cakes andcandy, English preserves and fancy fruits. Threehungry little tatterdemalions, shivering in the stiffbreeze, flattened their noses against the glass as wecame out. Their very ears worked as they sniffedand wished. I meant to give them some pennies,but preferred to photograph them while they were (22)
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GOLDEN SANDS OF PICARDY unconscious of observation. Just as I swung thecamera into position, hqwever, a charming youngEnglishman, as unconscious as the boys themselves,stepped outside, both hands full of cakes, and cameto them, completing the picture. About the same distance from Boulogne, in theopposite direction, is the fishing town of Le Portel,a quaint jumble of houses crowded together uponnarrow streets between high crags, and preservingan exceedingly ancient aspect. The broad, flat beachruns to the foot of the cliffs, where, on a wide,cobble-stoned, careening place, the fishing boats arehauled up, the bathing tents placed, and the news ofthe day. peddled by kindly gossips. Portel is the resort of the middle-class Parisian,w^ho welcomes its informality and low prices. Butafter mass of a Sunday morning, in the great squarebefore the simple Romanesque church, you lose sightentirely of Parisian or foreigner, of fashionable dressor head covering, for the Porteloise, gowned in soberbl

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