Tag: LE BASSIN
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Eugène Boudin, DEAUVILLE, LE BASSIN 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #239
Deauville was conceived for fashionable pleasures. It emerged from the dunes in the 1860s, thanks to the vision of one Dr Joseph Olliffe and his close friend, Emperor Napoleon III’s half-brother, the Duc de Morny. At the end of the 1850s, marshes lay between the sea here and a little slope-side village above. Dr Olliffe convinced…