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Trouville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [tʁuvil syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Trouville on Sea), commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4,603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Trouville-sur-Mer | |
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 Banks of the Touques River | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Trouville-sur-Mer  | |
  Trouville-sur-Mer  Trouville-sur-Mer | |
| Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E / 49.3683°N 0.0825°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Lisieux |
| Canton | Honfleur-Deauville |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Sylvie de Gaetano[1] |
| Area 1 | 6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 4,622 |
| • Density | 680/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14715 /14360 |
| Elevation | 0–148 m (0–486 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the River Touques. This fishing-village on the English Channel became a popular tourist attraction (beach-resort and holiday-destination) in Normandy from the 19th century. Its long sandy beach earned then the nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world".[3]
The name of Trouville is frequently associated with the names of the numerous painters that visited it and painted there, especially during the second part of the XIXth century: Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin, Raoul Dufy, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Fernand Léger, etc.
Trouville remains today a city of leisure and vacation with a casino and numerous festivals, as well as a city of culture (Marcel Proust, Marguerite Duras, Raymond Savignac, etc.). Numerous celebrities own vacation homes in the city: Gérard Depardieu, Antoine de Caunes, Bettina Rheims, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karl Zéro, etc.
Close to Paris and easily accessible by train, Trouville (as well as neighbouring Deauville) earned the nickname of 21st "Arrondissements of Paris".
Gallery
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Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville, 1865, Princeton University Art Museum -
Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville (Trouville, La Plage), Brooklyn Museum
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Population
editThe town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais in French.
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International relations
editTrouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Août 1870 : Claude Monet pose son chevalet à Trouville…
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Trouville-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
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