The Tourist Hotel ("the Magpie who Tette")
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The examination of the cadastre in 1823 shows that the building called Hôtel des Touristes then "La Pie qui Tette" did not exist,
The only construction is the one that belongs 50 years later to the innkeeper Mr Houel, at the location of the future Hôtel de la Plage (then Hôtel de la Place or Merlin)
The layout of the roads is different from the current one which dates only from 1872, see opposite.
(details) Plan established in 1872, for the new road to the sea: purchase of a Poitevin plot to build a deviation, resale of 2 abandoned, probably to the resident Mr. de Lépesse (owner of the castle and mayor).
There is still no construction on the site of the future tourist hotels and the Beach
We see that the current house Le Bastard is built and called "maison MARIE Michel".
(details) In 1873, transfer (against rights of passage of the commune on land by M Lépesse) of land, called wasteland of the castle, by Mr. de Lépesse to the municipality, which resells by auction to the innkeeper Mr. Houel.
The construction of the Tourist Hotel on these plots seems to date back to the following years.
Sculpted relief of "La Pie qui Tette"
The building is from the late 19th century, but the sculpture is a reuse of an ancient work
Below is the hotel restaurant first Hôtel des Touristes, (it is only after the war that it will be renamed "La Pie qui Tette" according to the ancient relief that decorates it).
(details) The Hôtel des Touristes, in the fairly old form, around 1905?, the advance has a terraced roof.
The hotel on the right does not seem to be built yet.
(details) before 1910?, the advance now has 2 levels..
(details) around 1910?
(details) we are probably a little before 1914 (see shape of the car). It is the Piprel who own and operate this business. In 1925, they sold the business and kept the walls.
(details) (photo Cusinberche), a small "toldo" is installed, maybe before 1925 and the sale of the operation by Piprel. (the "Pignolet" panel is not in place). The small hedge is still in place
Before 1925, the Piprel family operated the Hôtel des Touristes. It was from 1925 that the operation was taken over by the Pignolet family (it is in any case under this name that the hotel operated in the 1930s and in the post-war years.
(details) Tourist Hotel (Pignolet), after 1925
(details) After 1925, on the left the Hôtel des Touristes (Pignolet), on the right the Hotel "de la Place" which has maintained 5 skylights on the facade and 3 new ones on the south side
The railway tracks are in place
Around 1950, after the war, the advance had to be destroyed by the bombing of June 7. It has been temporarily replaced by a summary shelter on a single level
(details) Around 1960/70, after reconstruction of the advance of the Hôtel des Touristes - with a 3-slope slate roof. (exploiting Pignolet according to the inscription)
(details) around 1980
(details) Around 1990, the Magpie who Tette built a covered terrace on the rented municipal sidewalk.
(After the fire of the Hôtel de la Place, which was later demolished)