Why Is This Special?

so I have a few old binders i'm going thru and someone took special care to save this specific piece, but I don't know why out of all of them why this one.

any ideas?

It has something to do with a "Great Beach".

For the past 200 years, the beach at Deauville is considered to be one of the best quality Norman beaches in France. It is an attractive local cancellation, and I suspect it's the cancellation that is the most special aspect of this cover.

Grand Plage Mondial = Greatest Beach in the World

Deauville is located in the department (or province, if you will) of Calvados. Calvados is on the northern shore of France and in the world is probably most famous for certain inhabitants that lived in the town of Lisieux.

thanks guys, only here can get a mystery solved in 16 mins !

French Slogan cancels are very nice Edwin,
quite collectible (as if we need anything else to collect :)

Art Deco~Art Nouveau 1935 "Plage" Annecy beach Postcard.

Makes one want to throw on the "budgie smugglers"

Some slogans just on the Marianne "Becquet"

On second looks, that original cancel is curious,
the design is repeated across the image.
It looks to crisp to be a roller cancel,
a repeating machine cancel? never seen that before.

There are repeating machine cancels made by Krag. Usually you see them on covers from Germany and Great Britain. The only place a Krag was used in the United States was in Washington D.C. and I've yet to find one.
Will

That's the Atlantic ocean for you. The tides are generally quite small (at least when compared with the Pacific ocean). Not that there aren't exceptions (Bay of Fundy).

Budgie . . . a kind of bird, no?

Thanks Battlestamps,

Budgie is a small native parrot smauggie,
"budgie smuggler" refers to the Aussie swimwear "Speedos"
that are fine and silky, and reveal a tiny bulge at the mans appendage area when wet.

A pair of nesting budgies- (budgerigars)

Speak for yourself. LOL

Steve