In Casino Royale, the town is a fishing village North of Dieppe, it is near the mouth of the Somme and has a beach. Le Tréport is the best fit as any further south there is no beach and further north there is no fishing port. Le Tréport was also in the Seine-Inférieure département (now called Seine-Maritime).
It is harder to pin the location in OHMSS down - the book clearly points to the location being Le Touquet but Le Touquet is separately mentioned in the book. There is no nearby coastal town north of Le Touquet so I have chosen Stella Plage. However, if Bond and Tracey were both driving to a location south of Le Touquet, why did they drive through Montreuil?
Good supporting info here and as always you can see all the Bond locations on the Google Map.
I always thought that Deauville was a more likely candidate to have been the inspiration for Royale-les-Eaux ?
ReplyDeleteI think Deauville was certainly the inspiration for the casino itself but the location of the town is much further south than Fleming describes in Casino Royale & OHMSS.
DeleteThis might be linked to the fact that Fleming did not have the opportunity to research Casino Royale as well as he did for the later books (the amount of real life locations is noticeably different) so created a fictional town based on a number of places he knew in Northern France.