Deauville

"A fashionable bathing station on the coast, on the west bank of the Touques, facing Trouville...was brought to notice by Sir Joseph Olliffe, late physician to the English Embassy at Paris.

Attractions include a casino and bathing machines, hippodrome and racecourse, jockey club and lawn-tennis club....The new town contains numerous villas surrounded by luxuriant gardens. Concerts are held daily in the open air and in the casino, where every possible attraction for visitors is provided. Splendid hotels and handsome shops complete the requirements of this first-class seaside resort....Many of the French aristocracy have villas here. The bathing is similar in character to that of Trouville, its rival."

Cook's Handbook for Normandy and Brittany (London, 1898), pages 133–134