Cabourg

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Cabourg
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Coat of arms of Cabourg
Cabourg is located in France
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Cabourg
Administration
Country France
Region Lower Normandy
Department Calvados
Arrondissement Caen
Canton Cabourg
Mayor Jean-Paul Henriet
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 0–15 m (0–49 ft)
(avg. 5 m or 16 ft)
Land area1 5.52 km2 (2.13 sq mi)
Population2 4,026  (2008)
 - Density 729 /km2 (1,890 /sq mi)
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 without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 49°17′21″N 0°06′55″W / 49.2892°N 0.1153°W / 49.2892; -0.1153

Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region of France.

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. Population increases to some 40,000 during summer.

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[edit] 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]

[edit] Population

Historical population of Cabourg
Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Population 3022 3067 3308 3238 3355 3520 4026

[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] Personalities

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

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

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