In and Out of Three Normady Inns

Anna Bowman Dobbs gives her reader a delightful look at three of Normandy¿s Inns. Villerville begins, ¿Narrow streets with sinuous curves; dwarfed houses with minute shops protruding on inch-wide sidewalks; a tiny casino perched like a bird-cage on a tiny scaffolding; bath-houses dumped on the beach; fishing-smacks drawn up along the shore like so many Greek galleys; and, fringing the cliffs--the encroachment of the nineteenth century--a row of fantastic sea-side villas.¿ The...
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Anna Bowman Dobbs gives her reader a delightful look at three of Normandy¿s Inns. Villerville begins, ¿Narrow streets with sinuous curves; dwarfed houses with minute shops protruding on inch-wide sidewalks; a tiny casino perched like a bird-cage on a tiny scaffolding; bath-houses dumped on the beach; fishing-smacks drawn up along the shore like so many Greek galleys; and, fringing the cliffs--the encroachment of the nineteenth century--a row of fantastic sea-side villas.¿ The section on Dives begins, ¿In the course of the first few days we learned what all Dives had known for the past fifty years or so--that the focal point of interest in the inn was centred in Madame Le Mois. She drew us, as she had the country around for miles, to circle close about her green bench.¿