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8 unusual facts about Arcachon


Aline Valette

In April 1898 Valette went to Arcachon, to the south of Bordeaux, in the hope that warm weather and mineral water would cure her tuberculosis.

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Puerto Rican politician Ramón Emeterio Betances spent close to six months at Arcachon shortly before his death in 1898.

On the other side of the Bassin d'Arcachon is Cap Ferret, a popular resort for celebrities including Zinedine Zidane and Jean Pierre Pernaut, who have holiday homes in the chic resort.

Our Lady of Arcachon

Our Lady of Arcachon is a three-dimensional religious image venerated at Arcachon in southwestern France and credited with working miracles.

Rafael Barrett

Rafael Barrett, complete name Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez de Toledo, (Torrelavega, Spain, January 7, 1876 – Arcachon, France, December 17, 1910) was a Spanish writer, narrator, essayist and journalist, who developed most of his literary production in Paraguay, becoming an important figure of the Paraguayan literature during the twentieth century.

He died December 17 of 1910 at the age of 34 in the Regina Forèt Hotel in Arcachon, assisted by his aunt Susana Barret.

Roger-Henri Expert

He died the following year, and is buried at the cemetery at Arcachon.

Tombé pour elle

In the lyrics he mentions two cities and an island of the Gironde department (Arcachon, Cap-Ferret, the Île aux Oiseaux), which he calls "my house, my Eiffel Tower ... my Tower of Babel, my light, my stronghold".


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