Trouville-sur-Mer

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
Commune
Banks of the Touques River
Coat of arms
Location of Trouville-sur-Mer
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Coordinates: 49°22′06″N 0°04′57″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Intercommunality	CC Cœur Côte Fleurie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sylvie de Gaetano[1]
Area 1	6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	4,624
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14715 /14360
Elevation	0–148 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 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

• 
  Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville, 1865, Princeton University Art Museum
• 
  Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville (Trouville, La Plage), Brooklyn Museum

Population

The town's inhabitants are called Trouvillais in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 938 —     1800 628 −5.57% 1806 1,072 +9.32% 1821 1,236 +0.95% 1831 1,464 +1.71% 1836 1,673 +2.70% 1841 1,887 +2.44% 1846 2,267 +3.74% 1851 3,504 +9.10% 1856 4,163 +3.51% 1861 5,200 +4.55% 1866 5,694 +1.83% 1872 5,761 +0.20% 1876 5,886 +0.54% 1881 6,263 +1.25% 1886 6,308 +0.14% 1891 6,243 −0.21% 1896 6,264 +0.07% 1901 6,137 −0.41%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 6,401 +0.85% 1911 6,190 −0.67% 1921 6,262 +0.12% 1926 6,514 +0.79% 1931 6,465 −0.15% 1936 6,182 −0.89% 1946 7,585 +2.07% 1954 7,040 −0.93% 1962 6,622 −0.76% 1968 6,429 −0.49% 1975 6,618 +0.41% 1982 6,008 −1.37% 1990 5,607 −0.86% 1999 5,411 −0.39% 2007 4,928 −1.16% 2012 4,758 −0.70% 2017 4,628 −0.55% 2019 4,603 −0.27%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2017)[5]

International relations

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

Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:

• Barnstaple, United Kingdom^[6]
• Vrchlabí, Czech Republic

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department