Le Touquet Paris-Plage
Designed by M. Villemessant, Director of the newspaper "Le Figaro", the seaside town of Paris-Plage was created in 1882 by M. Daloz, owner of 1 600 hectares in the locality of Le Touquet.
great beaches and a superb newly planted forest inspired the English investors Whitley and Stoneham who - helped by personalities such as Pierre de Coubertin, Charles Granier, Pasteur... - Make the resort more sports and more selective.
large number of very prestigious sports facilities (including golf, opened by Lord Balfour, English Prime Minister in 1904) came to complete the casinos attractiveness.