1870s - Englishman on French Beach

This is a traveler's journal written by an Englishman frustrated by the male nudity on French shores in the 1870s, which was about the time laws were being passed requiring all men to wear bathing trousers while at the beach. Apparently, none of the men on this beach got the memo...

Bathing Seaside - From a Traveler's Journal(click on image to enlarge for reading)