What a summer ! In this month of August, 1913, it floats in Deauville, france, a holiday atmosphere. Certainly, it is a little colder than usual on this stretch of normandy coast – two degrees lower than the seasonal average according to the archives, but the sun is still at the rendezvous. And Eugène Cornuché can finally blow. The contractor, the owner of the restaurant Maxim’s, in Paris, where rush ” the important time “, comes to usher in a casino and a hotel (The Normandy), in the previous year. It is riddled to the bone all winter due to delays by the shipyard of são…
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