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TROUVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TROUVILLE , a seaside See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

north-western See also:

France, in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

CALVADOS

Calvados, on the See also:

ENGLISH

English Channel, 34 M. N.E. of See also:

CAEN

Caen by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1906), 5684. Trouville is situated on the slopes of well-wooded hills at the mouth of the Touques on its right See also:

BANK

bank opposite Deauville. Its See also:

FINE

fine stretches of See also:

sand and excellent bathing, a spacious See also:

CASINO (diminutive of casa, a house)

casino and beautiful villas, are among the attractions which make it the most frequented See also:

French resort on the channel. Deauville is well known for its See also:

RACE

race-course and villas, exceeding those of Trouville in luxury, but except during the race fortnight in See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August (la grande quinzaine) it is quiet and comparatively deserted. The See also:

PORT

port shared with Deauville and formed by the Touques is entered by a channel between jetties with a See also:

DEPTH

depth at high See also:

TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

tide of 18i ft. This leads on the one See also:

side to a tidal See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, on the other to an See also:

OUTER

outer and an inner See also:

basin. See also:

TIMBER

Timber, coals and See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

cement are imported. The See also:

LONDON

London & See also:

South Western Railway See also:

COMPANY

Company have a daily steamboat service from See also:

Havre to Trouville in connexion with their See also:

Southampton and Havre boats. Besides See also:

TRAWLING, SEINING AND NETTING

trawling and the provisioning of See also:

SHIPS

ships, in which Deauville is also engaged, Trouville carries on See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat-See also:

BUILDING

building and has rope and See also:

BRIQUETTE (diminutive of Fr. brique, brick)

briquette See also:

WORKS

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