Etaples

The camp at Etaples, which is built on a stretch of rolling sand beside the sea, is five miles long and a mile wide, and on every acre of it there are squads of soldiers drilling, drilling, drilling.

Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

Following the coast along, Paris-Plage has not as yet developed any restaurant of note, and the inn at Etaples, which is the town on the railway whence the walk or drive to Paris-Plage has to be undertaken, is more famous for having given shelter to generations of artists, some of whom have paid their bills with sketches, than for its food, though some of the best _pré-salé_ mutton in France comes from the fields over-flowed by the estuary at high tide.

The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Algernon Bastard 1885

"Do you call Madame d'Etaples's 'bal blanc' a folly?"

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

And in the largest ones, such as Etaples, where there are 11,000 graves, eminent architects have designed other structures, which add dignity and grandeur to the cemeteries, in the form of wide terraces and vaulted buildings, which serve as record-houses or rest-houses where visitors go apart to meditate or pray.

The Great Remembrance 1929

"Do you call Madame d'Etaples's 'bal blanc' a folly?"

Jacqueline — Complete 1873

However, even if caught by them, it would be but a temporary detention, for I am well known at Etaples, which is always my port, unless specially directed to land my passengers elsewhere. "

In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain Charles Mills Sheldon 1867

Well! Dolly is going to Madame d'Etaples's ball. "

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Well! Dolly is going to Madame d'Etaples's ball. "

Jacqueline — Complete 1873

In March 2003, graffiti was discovered on a large memorial at the Etaples Military Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France, where 11,000 British soldiers, most of whom died during World War I, are buried.

Tragedy on the Araxes 2006

They assumed the king intended to attack Etaples, which he had long wished to destroy.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005