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Asnelles, France
Type: Land Based
Status: Closed
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| Asnelles is a seaside resort in low Normandy region.
In the middle of the nineteenth century the village will experience big changes. Significant work is being undertaken, including the draining of marshes, the construction of a dam and many villas. Most of these houses belonged to wealthy landowners, residents of Bayeux or Caen and sometimes Paris (after the construction of a railway line between Paris and Bayeux, a small railroad connected Asnelles with Bayeux). Some of these vacation homes were luxury homes. Asnelles became the range of Bayeux, a fashionable resort with several hotels, restaurants, casino etc ....
Asnelles becomes "Asnelles la Belle Plage", a term given by the many "bathers" frequenting the station that takes, according to the newspapers of the time, the knickname of "little Trouville." The construction of a sanatorium for children considered at the end of World War II, will discourage many families from Paris and the Paris region, rich owners of villas, to go to Asnelles. |
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CG165471
Added: 2016-06-30
Last Update: 2016-06-30
Contributed by: Carlos Pascoal
from "Guide National et Catholique du voyageur en France, 1900-1901". Source www.gallica.bnf.fr.
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