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8 unusual facts about Le Touquet


1934 Hillman's Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide crash

The normal route in conditions of bad visibility was from Dungeness to Le Touquet.

Charles Samuel Myers

In 1915 Myers was given a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and in 1916 he was appointed consultant psychologist to the British armies in France with a staff of assistants at Le Touquet.

Jack Barclay Bentley

After he ran up massive gambling debts at the casino in Le Touquet his mother, fearful for her son’s safety, paid the debts on condition that he gave up racing and focused on his motor dealership business.

Jagdfliegerführer 2

The headquarters was located at Dortmund and from July 1940 in Wissant, from June 1941 at Le Touquet, and from September 1943 in Stade.

Lydd Airport

Lydd Air is based at the airport, offering regular flights to Le Touquet in northern France.

The Night of the Following Day

Filmed in France, around Le Touquet it tells a simple story: a kidnapped heiress (Franklin) is held hostage in a remote beachhouse on the coast of France.

Turkish archery

In 1910 an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Ingo Simon was able to shoot an arrow 434 m using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of 440N or 99 lb.

Villa La Prairie

The villa is located in the golf area of Le Touquet, alongside other villas built in the 1920s and 1930s, of which one was owned by Somerset Maugham and P.G. Wodehouse.


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Royale-les-Eaux

References in On Her Majesty's Secret Service suggest yet another département: when driving northwards along the N1 (now the D901), James Bond passes a Michelin road sign saying "Montreuil 5, Royale-les-Eaux 10, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage 15".


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Winston DuBose

When DuBose was trying his hand at European soccer in 1989, he was one of only a handful of American pioneers then playing professionally on the continent: only Chris Sullivan (Le Touquet AC), Frank Klopas (AEK Athens), Paul Caligiuri (Meppen), Bruce Murray (FC Lucerne), and Peter Vermes (Raba Eto) were also eking out a living there at the time.