{"id":598306,"date":"2026-08-19T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:46:12","slug":"normandy-beach-town-has-hardly-changed-since-monet-painted-it-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/598306\/","title":{"rendered":"Normandy beach town has hardly changed since Monet painted it : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787161572_223_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1920x1080+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F81%2F04%2F566676034d6b836e5d4f9476ec09%2Ffarflungpostcard-eleanorb.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"FarFlungPostcard_EleanorB.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Normandy beach town of Trouville-sur-Mer is just a two-hour train ride from the center of Paris, but it feels a world away.<\/p>\n<p>Gone are the heat and traffic of the city, replaced by English Channel breezes and the sound of seagulls screeching through the cobbled streets.<\/p>\n<p>The beaches along this expanse of coastline known as the Norman Riviera are wide, with big tides, and many Parisians come up just for the day \u2014 as I did \u2014 relaxing in chaise lounge chairs under colorful beach umbrellas that line the boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>The Impressionists captured Trouville&#8217;s sandy beaches and shifting skies just as fashionable holiday makers began taking to the waters here in the 19th century in what was known as &#8220;sea bathing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking at one of Claude Monet&#8217;s Trouville-sur-Mer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/claude-monet\/the-boardwalk-on-the-beach-at-trouville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beach scenes<\/a> of turreted houses and fashionable boardwalk strollers, it feels like nothing has changed since then &#8230; except perhaps the strollers&#8217; attire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Normandy beach town of Trouville-sur-Mer is just a two-hour train ride from the center of Paris, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-598306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}