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Trouville-sur-Mer | |
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 Banks of theTouques River | |
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 Location of Trouville-sur-Mer | |
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| Coordinates:49°22′06″N0°04′57″E / 49.3683°N 0.0825°E /49.3683; 0.0825 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Lisieux |
| Canton | Honfleur-Deauville |
| Intercommunality | CC Cœur Côte Fleurie |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Sylvie de Gaetano[1] |
Area 1 | 6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 4,619 |
| • Density | 680/km2 (1,760/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 (French pronunciation:[tʁuvilsyʁmɛʁ]ⓘ, literallyTrouville on Sea), commonly referred to asTrouville, is acity of 4,603 inhabitants in theCalvadosdepartment in theNormandyregion in northwesternFrance.
Trouville-sur-Mer bordersDeauville across theRiver 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".
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The town's inhabitants are calledTrouvillais in French.
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