Royale les eaux casino

Placing the fictional town of Royale-les-Eaux precisely has always proved difficult, due to the scant information available, first in Casino Royale and later in On Her Majesty&#;s Secret Service.

1. It &#;lies near the mouth of the Somme before the flat coastline soars up from the beaches of southern Picardy to the Brittany cliffs which run on to Le Havre&#;. (CR5)

This information yields little other than Royale is near the mouth of the Somme and the coastline is flat. The Brittany cliffs don&#;t run on to Le Havre from Picardy &#; Brittany follows Le Havre from Picardy.

2. &#;But as Deauville killed Trouville, so, after a long period of decline, did Le Touquet kill Royale&#;. (CR5)

One can conclude that Royale is a similar distance from Le Touquet as Deauville is from Trouville.

3. &#;Le Touquet would have to yield up some of the treasure stolen over the years from its parent plage&#;. (CR5)

Again this implies that Le Touquet and Royale-les-Eaux are neighbours.

4. The &#;longest beach in Northern France&#;. (OHMSS1)

Le Touquet has a long beach, although we&#;ve been unable to determine how long.

5. Bond is driving on &#;that fast but dull stretch of N1 between Abbeville and Montreuil&#;. He reaches a sign saying &#;Montreuil 5, Royale-les-Eaux 10, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage 15&#;. (OHMSS2)

6. He then follows the road through Montreuil and over the Étaples-Paris level crossing, after which &#;the left-hand turn for Royale came up&#;. (OHMSS2)

The left hand turn actually leads to Le Touquet, although it is 16 km from Montreuil. 10 km south of Le Touquet is Berck-Sur-Mer. This has both casino and a beach, two attributes essential for Royale-les-Eaux. Although Royale may not be based directly on Berck, it is certainly approximately where Royale-les-Eaux would be from the evidence presented by Ian Fleming.

View map of Le Touquet, Montreuil and Berck