Le Touquet was known as Paris by the Sea, and was the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s eponymous casino at Royale-le-Eaux in his James Bond novel, Casino Royale, published the previous year. In this photograph, Avedon captures all the glamour and opulence of the casino. He uses a crowd ...
In an effort to wrest37 the big money from Deauville and Le Touquet, the Société des Bains de Mers de Royale have leased the baccarat and the two top chemin-de-fer tables to the Mahomet Ali Syndicate, a group of émigré Egyptian bankers and business-men with, it is said, a call ...