Exploring Deauville – Visiting France’s American Film Festival Town with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
One
clear and brisk autumn day, Laurent and I set out for the resort town of
Deauville, which is like a French Palm Beach on the English Channel.
The
traffic on the ride there was heavy.
Obviously, we were not the only people going to the seashore. People usually go in the summer for the
yachting facilities, golf courses, casinos, health spas, and designer clothing
stores.
There
is also a racecourse for those with a little extra money to burn.
I
wanted to buy some postcards showing off Deauville’s natural beauty. Most of the postcards showed the casino and
golf courses, but I eventually found one with photos of Deauville’s white sand
beaches and the boardwalk along the edge of it.
I bought a bottle of Pays d’Auge Calvados as well. Calvados is apple brandy.
Deauville
is only two hours away from Paris. Many
Parisian families go to Deauville in the summer with their families to benefit
from the month-long summer vacations.
As
we were walking along the boardwalk called the “Promenade des Planches” in
French, we saw one of France’s former prime ministers, Edouard Balladur, out
for a walk by himself.
Laurent
smiled at him and Mr. Balladur smiled back at Laurent. It was a special moment.
Laurent
asked me, “Do you know who that was?”
“Of
course, I do. I read newspapers,” I
said.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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