Balbec

Or stay at nearby La Raspelière (from €80 for a double, chambres-hotes-cabourg.fr), and then dine at Le Balbec restaurant below the Grand Hôtel, with its marvellous seasonal seafood menu (three courses from €56).

Classic France: the insiders' guide 2011

Most chapters begin with a dramatic or poignant episode: Matisse's hernia, Proust's disappointment at Balbec, Seneca's suicide, Henry James' loss of Miss Woolson.

Book Block: DISTRACTION by Damon Young 2009

Most chapters begin with a dramatic or poignant episode: Matisse's hernia, Proust's disappointment at Balbec, Seneca's suicide, Henry James' loss of Miss Woolson.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Lost as when once I sank into the quick of a budding grove and seated in the dining room of that enormous world of Balbec, I caught for the first time the profound meaning of those interior stills which manifest their presence through the exorcism of sight and touch.

miller et matisse et moi kerouacslover 2008

Mr. Karpeles reminds us of the blending of sea and sky at the beach resort of Balbec -- a splendid confusion of color and shifting light that infuses the young narrator's experience of a summer holiday.

The Savage Lessons of Pretty Pictures 2008

Came home to the great agravation of finding our water off: next doors Balbec-like renovations had switched it off at the street and forgotten to switch it on again.

Knuckle Down 2005

And here, with regard to this young man, I remembered a point which I had forgotten; a little time earlier, while Albertine was staying with me, I had met him, and he had been — in contradiction of his attitude at Balbec — extremely friendly, even affectionate with me, had begged me to allow him to call upon me, which I had declined to do for a number of reasons.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

Andrée, these other women, all of them in relation to Albertine — as Albertine herself had been in relation to Balbec — were to be numbered among those substitutes for pleasures, replacing one another, in a gradual degradation, which enable us to dispense with the pleasure to which we can no longer attain, a holiday at Balbec, or the love of

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

And as once again I sought to discover what could have been the reason for her obstinacy, all of a sudden the memory came to me of a remark that I had made to her at Balbec on the day when she gave me a pencil.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

If Albertine had been a lover of women, there were thousands of other days in her life her employment of which I did not know and about which it might be as interesting for me to learn; I might have sent Aimé to many other places in Balbec, to many other towns than Balbec.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003