Country France Department Calvados Population (2013) 3,709 Area 5.52 km² Arrondissement Caen | Region Normandy Canton Cabourg Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Monday 12:31 AM | |
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Weather 8°C, Wind W at 29 km/h, 72% Humidity | ||
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.
Contents
- Map of 14390 Cabourg France
- History
- Climate
- Culture
- Personalities
- International relations
- Popular culture
- References
Map of 14390 Cabourg, France
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.
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.
International relations
Cabourg has relations with the following cities: