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Le roi de France à Hyères

par JMS 15 septembre 2022

Le roi de France à Hyères raconte la visite du souverain français dans cette ville au bord de la Méditerranée.

« Dans un intervalle de calme pendant les guerres de Religion, le roi Charles IX vint avec sa mère Catherine de Médicis visiter la Provence et passa à Hyères les fêtes de la Toussaint.

On avait planté sur son passage, et la veille seulement de son arrivée, une longue avenue d’orangers couverts de fruits ; de telle sorte qu’on pouvait penser que les habitants laissaient ainsi croître ces arbres sur la route.

Les cinq jours que le roi passa à Hyères s’écoulèrent en fêtes continuelles à la mode du temps.

Les habitants faisaient ressource et peut-être même abus des produits de leur territoire.

Chaque fois que le prince passait sous la porte de la ville, un robinet en pomme d’arrosoir lui versait sur la tête une pluie d’eau de fleur d’oranger. »

Le roi de France à Hyères est une relation extraite du journal « L’Athenaeum français » du 1^er Janvier 1853.

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Hyères is a filthy town

par JMS 5 décembre 2019

Hyères is a filthy town describes the bad experience endured by an englishman visiting this town on the french Riviera.

” The town of Hyères as a whole is not kept as clean as it might be.

The streets want better paving and draining; in fact, in the old town there appear to be no drains, but the slops and refuse from the houses are allowed to accnmulate and run down open gutters in the centre of the streets.

This is especially true of the Rues St. Bernard, de la Croix, and Fenouillet. Some of the back lanes above the cemetery were horribly filthy when I visited Hyères.

The best shops are in the Rue Massillon, leading to the Place Massillon, and along the Route Nationale and in the Place de la Rade.

There is a general poverty-stricken look about the shops taken as a whole, and they are very inferior to those of Cannes or Nice.

The Hôtel de Ville, or town hall, is situated in the little Square Massillon, which is adorned by a bust of the celebrated preacher who was born in one of the houses close by and a curious old tower which belonged to a templar church on the same spot is now the official residence of the Commissaire de Police.”

The story about Hyères is a filthy town goes back to…1879. It can be found in a book ” The Riviera” written by Edward Issac Sparks.

Hyères is quite beautiful nowadays.

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Complaints about the Grand Hotel in Hyères

par JMS 16 août 2019

Complaints about the Grand Hotel in Hyères is a post revealing the bad experience lived by english tourists.

“The “Iles d’Or” hotel is the largest and best hotel in Hyères, and is kept in excellent style, and with a good table and attendance.

Its rooms are, however, small, the lower ones narrow, and the upper ones narrow and low. This state of things is accounted for by its having originally been built as a hospital, though our modern notions would scarcely admit the excuse as valid.

There is a wing, or dépendance, at either end.

The passages are long and tortuons, and hence draughty, although provided with doors-which no one shuts-to isolate the different parts of the house.

Complaints have been made in former seasons that imaginary extras were too apt to be inserted in the visitor’s bills, and I have heard of ” cork money ” being charged for brandy bought privately and used as a medicine upstairs, and of other persons finding the expense of the calorifère, or heating apparatus, put down in their bills.

This sort of hotel management deserves the strongest reprobation, and I allude to it in the interests of the public, though I trust it is now a thing of the past.

The ” Iles d’Or ” hotel has excellent gardens, not only behind it on the flank of the Château Hill, but also on the south side of the Boulevard National.”

Complaints about the Grand Hotel in Hyères is a post that goes back to…1879. The story is reported in ” The Riviera”, a book written by Edward Issac Sparks.