SPORT AND SPORTSMEN ON THE 

 FRENCH COAST. 



So many fallacies have been exploded of late 

 years that any one who utters what was once a 

 well-understood truth has at first sight the 

 appearance of being behind the age. The man 

 who hints that Jezebel had her weak points, or 

 that Nero was not a model of what a really 

 admirable monarch should be, seems ignorant of 

 the latest contributions to the history of those 

 celebrities; and to chaff a Frenchman for his 

 slight and usually mistaken ideas of sport is very 

 far indeed from being a novelty. Yet what is a 

 conscientious historian to do ? To strike out a 

 new line and endeavour to prove that M. de 

 Grandecraavatte goes to work in the right way 

 would give a writer original ground to traverse, 

 but in his journey he would be entirely un- 

 supported by facts. There are exceptions, of 

 course, which all of us could name. Some 

 Frenchmen are as well known in St. James's- 



