Cabourg

Cabourg

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Cabourg

Coordinates: 49°17′17″N 0°06′59″W / 49.2879810°N 0.1162920°W / 49.2879810; -0.1162920Coordinates: 49°17′17″N 0°06′59″W / 49.2879810°N 0.1162920°W / 49.2879810; -0.1162920
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Cabourg
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean-Paul Henriet
Area1 5.52 km2 (2.13 sq mi)
Population (2013)2 3,709
 • Density 670/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 14117 / 14390
Elevation 0–15 m (0–49 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.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of France. Cabourg is on the coast of the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Dives. The back country is a plain, favourable to the culture of cereal. The town sits on the Côte Fleurie (Flowery Coast) and its population increases by over 40,000 during the summer.

History

It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058.

According to Marcel Proust's biographer George D. Painter:

But the modern Cabourg began in 1853 with the arrival of two Paris financiers in search of a new site for a luxurious watering-place. The railway age had made the Normandy coast accessible to holiday-makers; Dieppe, Trouville and Deauville to the east had already been discovered; but here the adventurers found a virgin expanse of barren dunes and level sea-sands ripe for development. By the 1880s an unreal city of villas and hotels had arisen, in a semicircle whose diameter was the seafront, whose centre was the Grand Hotel, and whose radii were traced by a fan-work of avenues shaded with limes and Normandy poplars.[1]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19623,022—    
19683,067+1.5%
19753,308+7.9%
19823,238−2.1%
19903,355+3.6%
19993,520+4.9%
20084,026+14.4%

Climate

Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and very mild winters.

Culture

Each year in June, Cabourg hosts the International Festival of the Romantic Movie.

Personalities

Cabourg is famous for being Marcel Proust's favorite vacation place at the beginning of the 20th century; it is the inspiration for Balbec, the seaside resort in Proust's In Search of Lost Time.[2]

International relations

Cabourg has relations with the following cities:[3]

References

  1. ↑ George D. Painter, Proust: The Later Years (Little, Brown, 1965), p. 84
  2. ↑ Cabourg (Balbec)
  3. ↑ "Relations Internationales". cabourg.net. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
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