Cabourg

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Coordinates: 49°17′21″N 0°06′55″W / 49.2891666667, -0.115277777778

Commune of Cabourg
Location
Cabourg (France)
Cabourg
Administration
Country France
Region Basse-Normandie
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Cabourg
Mayor Jean-Paul Henriet
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 0 m–15 m
(avg. 5 m)
Land area¹ 5.52 km²
Population²
(1999)		 3,520
 - Density 637/km² (1999)
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.
France

Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados département 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 soft 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.

[edit] Twin towns

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ George D. Painter, Proust: The Later Years (Little, Brown, 1965), p. 84

[edit] External links

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