153 - [MENIER (Gaston) - Photographs - Yachting]. Album containing 90 small silver gelatin prints (8 × 11 cm, as seen). Undated [late 19th–early 20th century]. Quarto, green embossed percaline, spine worn. An interesting photo album documenting cruises aboard the Julie, a steam schooner owned by the prominent industrialist Gaston Menier (1855–1934), heir to the famous chocolate-making dynasty.

[MENIER (Gaston) - Photographs - Yachting]. Album containing 90 small silver gelatin prints (8 × 11 cm, as seen). Undated [late 19th–early 20th century]. Quarto, green embossed percaline, spine worn. An interesting photo album documenting cruises aboard the Julie, a steam schooner owned by the prominent industrialist Gaston Menier (1855–1934), heir to the famous chocolate-making dynasty. The album contains 90 original photographs documenting, in particular, a cruise in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and along the coasts of Brittany and Normandy: Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan, Dinan, Mont-Saint-Michel, Cancale, Granville, and Avranches. Views of ports, landscapes, and monuments are followed by scenes of life on board, portraits of passengers, and several beautiful photographs of the yacht, whether under sail or under steam. The collection continues with photographs of a wedding and a river cruise, including a view that may depict the Menier chocolate factory in Noisiel, on the banks of the Marne. Built in England in 1883 by the Shuttleworth & Chapman shipyard, the yacht Julie, weighing approximately 100 tonneaux, belonged to Gaston Menier, an industrialist, politician, and avid recreational boater. He also owned the famous yacht Ariane, aboard which he undertook a cruise to Scandinavia in 1902. A beautiful collection of old amateur photographs, offering a vivid account of water sports, travel, and the social life of the industrial upper class during the Belle Époque.