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
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sylvie de Gaetano[1]
Area 1	6.79 km2 (2.62 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	4,622
• 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

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Août 1870 : Claude Monet pose son chevalet à Trouville…
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Trouville-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
6. "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Retrieved 11 July 2013.

External links

• Official website of the city of Trouville
• Short history of this surprising town with pictures