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Trouville-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [tʁuvil syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ, 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 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 nickname of "queen of the beaches" ("Reine des plages") or "most beautiful beach in the world".[3]
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 nickname of 21st "Arrondissements of Paris".
Gallery
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Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville, 1865, Princeton University Art Museum
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Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville (Trouville, La Plage), Brooklyn Museum
Population
The town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais in French.
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2017)[5] |
International relations
Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Août 1870 : Claude Monet pose son chevalet à Trouville…
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Trouville-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
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