valery-en-caux

Updated: June 11, 2025

For the very simple reason that, in his heart of hearts, he disapproved of his liaison with Pilar. As he would not give in, the countess resigned herself to what she called his "schoolgirl crotchet," and they traveled together to St. Valery-en-Caux, another little seaside place several hours' journey from Ault. Here they took rooms together at a hotel, and wrote themselves down as man and wife.

Max Simon Nordau - The Malady of the Century

She was never tired of praising this worthy fellow, who only existed, as every one knew, in her own imagination; she admitted that she did not know him personally, but had corresponded with him through the medium of the woman Delaitre, who had been placed near her; but she knew that he was the woman's husband, captain of a boat at Saint Valery-en-Caux, and, in addition, a relation of poor Raoul Gaillard, whom the Marquise remembered even in her own troubles.

G. Lenotre - The House of the Combrays