The beach is a place where people meet. At the turn of the 19th century, holidaymakers met sailors and seamen. Two worlds, two societies rubbed shoulders: the "seafarers" and the "landlubbers", and they didn't mix. Harshness and frivolity are measured on the same beach. Beach-goers are known pejoratively as "Perisians". Their ever-increasing numbers disrupted daily life and new professions appeared: donkey drivers who transported the sick and tourists, milkmaids who offered goat's or cow's milk at snack time, sometimes straight from the udder. A real tourist economy was developing, and the leisure society was on the move. The few sailors who still came to beach their boats disappeared at the end of the 1950s.
