Le Croisic has a port of fifty feet; it has a look-out which resembles an enormous _brioche_ (a kind of cake) elevated on a dish.

The flat strand is the dish.

Hundreds of barrowsful of earth amalgamated with pebbles, and rounded into cones, with sinuous passages between, are look-outs and _brioches_ at the same time.

It is so now, and it was so two hundred years ago, only the _brioche_ was not so large, and probably there were to be seen to trellises of lath around the _brioche_, which constitute an ornament, planted like _gardes-fous_ along the passages that wind towards the little terrace.

Upon the shingle lounged three or four fishermen talking about sardines and shrimps.