Trouville-sur-Mer

Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E / 49.3683°N 0.0825°E / 49.3683; 0.0825
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Trouville-sur-Mer
Banks of the Touques River
Banks of the Touques River
Coat of arms of Trouville-sur-Mer
Location of Trouville-sur-Mer
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Trouville-sur-Mer is located in France
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer is located in Normandy
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer
Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E / 49.3683°N 0.0825°E / 49.3683; 0.0825
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementLisieux
CantonHonfleur-Deauville
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Sylvie de Gaetano[1]
Area
1
6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
4,622
 • Density680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
14715 /14360
Elevation0–148 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: [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 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".

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Population[edit]

The town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais in French.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 938—    
1800 628−5.57%
1806 1,072+9.32%
1821 1,236+0.95%
1831 1,464+1.71%
1836 1,673+2.70%
1841 1,887+2.44%
1846 2,267+3.74%
1851 3,504+9.10%
1856 4,163+3.51%
1861 5,200+4.55%
1866 5,694+1.83%
1872 5,761+0.20%
1876 5,886+0.54%
1881 6,263+1.25%
1886 6,308+0.14%
1891 6,243−0.21%
1896 6,264+0.07%
1901 6,137−0.41%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1906 6,401+0.85%
1911 6,190−0.67%
1921 6,262+0.12%
1926 6,514+0.79%
1931 6,465−0.15%
1936 6,182−0.89%
1946 7,585+2.07%
1954 7,040−0.93%
1962 6,622−0.76%
1968 6,429−0.49%
1975 6,618+0.41%
1982 6,008−1.37%
1990 5,607−0.86%
1999 5,411−0.39%
2007 4,928−1.16%
2012 4,758−0.70%
2017 4,628−0.55%
20194,603−0.27%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2017)[5]

International relations[edit]

Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Août 1870 : Claude Monet pose son chevalet à Trouville…
  4. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Trouville-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
  5. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  6. ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 11 July 2013.

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