Hotel de la Plage

Overview

The hotel on the beach front at Ostend where Marie and her aunt take their meals in August and September 1874 (Marie writes «la Plage»). She names it among the sea-front buildings from the boat on 6 September: «le Kursaal, les hôtels, celui de la Plage, les Bains, puis du Sable» (023.0562). It is a restaurant to her more than a lodging: dinner before the Cercle des Bains, lunches after bathing, and the setting in which she observes Basilewsky, Doenhoff and the Fosters.

In Marie's diary

• 1874-08-22 (023.0274): «dîner à l'hôtel de la Plage» before joining the Tamancheff party at the cercle des Bains; 08-23 (023.0283): «Je les entraîne dîner à la Plage. Je n'aime pas changer et je m'y plais.»
• 1874-08-24 (023.0303): lunch, Basilewsky at a nearby table; 08-29 (023.0403): Basilévitch and Viviani dine with them; 09-03 (023.0476): lunch with the Fosters in the rain; 09-04 (023.0483): a verse about going «à la Plage» in the storm; 09-05 (023.0504): the old man who stares.
• 1874-09-06 (023.0562): the hotels seen from the departing boat.

See Ostende, Kursaal.