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Updated: June 25, 2025
. . . We enjoyed Croisic increasingly to the last spite of three weeks' vile weather, in striking contrast to the golden months at Pornic last year. I often went to Guerande once Sarianna and I walked from it in two hours and something under, nine miles: though from our house, straight over the sands and sea, it is not half the distance. . . . In 1867 Mr.
The peninsula of Croisic is flanked on the sea side by granite rocks the shapes of which are so strangely fantastic that they can only be appreciated by travellers who are in a position to compare them with other great spectacles of primeval Nature.
This bush, the greatest curiosity of Croisic, where trees have never grown, is three miles distant from the harbor, on the point of rocks that runs farthest into the sea.
"What is the matter, my dear?" she cried. "Nothing. Well, then, Calyste, send my horses and yours across to Croisic, so that we may drive home by way of Batz. We will breakfast at Croisic, and get home in time for dinner. You must take charge of the boat arrangements. Let us start by half-past eight.
D'Artagnan, aware of the consequences of a fall, which would result in a cold bath, allowed him to go as he liked, contenting himself with looking at, on the horizon, three rocks, that rose up like lance-blades from the bosom of the plain, destitute of verdure. Piriac, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.
One facade of the house looks on the road to Guerande, the other on the desert at the end of which is Croisic; beyond that little town is the open sea. A brook escapes through an opening in the park wall which skirts the road to Croisic, crosses the road, and is lost in the sands beyond it. The grayish tones of the house harmonize admirably with the scene it overlooks.
This public curiosity brought in an enormous sum to the family of the porter and gardener, not less, in two years, than seventeen francs. After this, Mademoiselle des Touches did not revisit Les Touches for two years, not until her return from Italy. On that occasion she came by way of Croisic and was accompanied by Conti. It was some time before Guerande became aware of her presence.
Then, obviously while Charles was waiting for orders, came the fatal news in a hurried note. 'Conflans beaten, his ship, the "Soleil Royal," and the "Heros" stranded at Croisic. Seven ships are come in. Ten are flying at sea. Brave Admiral Hawke had routed Conflans in Quiberon Bay. Afflavit Deus, and scattered the fleet of France, with the last hope of Charles.
Oh, lingering festival; oh, glorious decorations; oh, happy exaltation of human forces! Once already the lake of Brienne had spoken to me thus. The rock of Croisic may be perhaps the last of these my joys. If so, what will become of Pauline? "Have you had a good catch to-day, my man?" I said to the fisherman.
In this nineteenth century, the Shambles bank is in ruins; the breakwater recently constructed has overthrown and mutilated, by the force of its surf, that high submarine architecture, just as the jetty, built at the Croisic in 1760, changed, by a quarter of an hour, the course of the tides. And yet the tide is eternal. But eternity obeys man more than man imagines.
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