Cabourg
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Coordinates: 49°17′21″N 0°06′55″W / 49.2891666667°N 0.115277777778°W
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Commune of Cabourg |
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  Cabourg
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Basse-Normandie |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Caen |
| Canton | Cabourg |
| Mayor | Jean-Paul Henriet (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 0–15 m (0–49 ft) (avg. 5 m/16 ft) |
| Land area1 | 5.52 km2 (2.13 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 3,520 (1999) |
| - Density | 638 /km² (1,650 /sq mi) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14117/ 14390 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region of France.
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[edit] Geography
Cabourg belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favourable to the cereal culture.
[edit] History
It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058.
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]
[edit] Climate
Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and very mild winters.
[edit] Culture
Each year in June, Cabourg hosts the International Festival of the Romantic Movie.
[edit] Demography
Population: around 3,500 inhabitants during winter; 40,000 during summer.
[edit] Celebrities related with the commune
Cabourg is famous for being Marcel Proust's favorite vacation place at the beginning of the 20th century; it is the original of Balbec, the seaside resort in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.[2]
[edit] Twin towns
- Chur, Switzerland
- Atlantic City, USA
- Spa, Belgium
- Bad Homburg, Germany
- Jurmala, Latvia
- Terracina, Italy
- Salcombe, UK
- Mayrhofen, Austria
- Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg
- Oussouye, Senegal
- Bromont, Canada
[edit] Notes
- ^ George D. Painter, Proust: The Later Years (Little, Brown, 1965), p. 84
- ^ Cabourg (Balbec)
[edit] External links
- Cabourg website (in French)
- Official Cabourg website (in English and French)
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