From Normandy to the Pyrenees

IF I had not cut short my mild retrospect by these possibly milder generalizations, I should have touched lightly upon some of the social phenomena of which the little beach at Etretal was the scene. I shall have narrated that the French, at the seaside, are not sociable as Americans affect to be in a similar situation, and I should subjoin that at Etretal it was very well on the whole that they were not.