European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Royans new look smart hotels along the sect walkways traffic congestion in downtown France 9s coup by Don staff writer photos by John Alley tie Seaside town of has never looked More this u particularly True to the hotel Casino managers and chamber of Commerce who find the most Beautiful part about it All is that Royan last month alone had mostly parisians and foreign who had come to spend their Money at the Atlantic coast this year Marks Royans first big Post War comeback As a major during the height of the its entertainment spots feature International there is dancing every it is All very much like the old when Royan rivalled Biarritz and Cau Ville As an International fun it to play Host to maharajah and Mil limousines lined its Crescent shaped Bayfront pretty girls graced its night All this came to an abrupt end when the last War started and it came to a permanent end the night of Royan had weathered the War As Well As any French especially those along the coast that were targets for frequent shellings and air its casinos and if the worse for Wear and were still most of France had Al ready been liberated and there were even those in Royan who predicted there might be some sort of a season the summer of that the Royan pocket was yet to be Liber and that during the final Campaign in this coastal Allied bombers hit the resort destroying 85 per cent of it within 20 it has taken Royan 12 years to reconstruction is still going but for the most part the resort has taken on its new Royan is perhaps Frances most modern the extent of reconstruction rates with such Jarger cities Asle Brest and Community spirit has gone into the efforts to rebuild the there has been a unified the idea being that if the town is unique it will attract vacationers accustomed to going to the More popular Cote lazur or Channel Royan seems to have succeeded in Mak ing itself there Are no Palace hotels accent is on simple com fort at More moderate there Are showers and electric razor outlets instead of valets and room architects have let their imaginations run wild on some of Royans new build but they have followed a Central theme postwar Royan is the Stark spire of the protestant for Spears through the slab like roof of the Structure like a then there is the Market entered in the Square at the end of the main the Boulevard Aristid Are overhead Bridges for promenades at the other end of the bordering the Sandy near these have been built the now shops and restau each with a different one store is built on with parking space Royan never really was like Deauville and there were no big names to set the luring society from Paris and it grew to prominence through the yearly visits of weal thy Bordeaux it gained inter National importance when transatlantic Ocean liners put in at Pointe de grave be fore that across the was put out of commission during the the liners came in from Argentina and Many a latin american would spend a few Days at a smart Royan hotel before going on to Paris and the rest of the this season Royan is Back in its Best like most of the towns on the Cote de Beaute coast of As the promoters of tourism like to Call the Royan is having its share of Vaca ill sea and Sand Combine to make the 12 the stars and stripes