Trouville-sur-Mer

Trouville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [tʁuvil syʁ mɛʁ] (listen), 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
Commune
Banks of the Touques River
Coat of arms
Location of Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer
Trouville-sur-Mer
Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentCalvados
ArrondissementLisieux
CantonHonfleur-Deauville
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Sylvie de Gaetano
Area
1
6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[1]
4,603
 • 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 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 nickame of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world"[2].

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 nickame of 21st "Arrondissements of Paris".

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793938—    
1800628−33.0%
18061,072+70.7%
18211,236+15.3%
18311,464+18.4%
18361,673+14.3%
18411,887+12.8%
18462,267+20.1%
18513,504+54.6%
18564,163+18.8%
18615,200+24.9%
18665,694+9.5%
18725,761+1.2%
18765,886+2.2%
18816,263+6.4%
18866,308+0.7%
18916,243−1.0%
18966,264+0.3%
YearPop.±%
19016,137−2.0%
19066,401+4.3%
19116,190−3.3%
19216,262+1.2%
19266,514+4.0%
19316,465−0.8%
19366,182−4.4%
19467,585+22.7%
19547,040−7.2%
19626,622−5.9%
19686,429−2.9%
19756,618+2.9%
19826,008−9.2%
19905,607−6.7%
19995,411−3.5%
20084,864−10.1%
20194,603−5.4%

The town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais.

International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  2. Août 1870 : Claude Monet pose son chevalet à Trouville…
  3. "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 2013-07-11.


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