Cabourg
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Cabourg
|commune status = Commune
|image = CabourgPlage.jpg
|caption = Cabourg Beach
| image flag = Flag of Cabourg.gif
| image flag size =
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Cabourg (14).svg
|coordinates = {{coord|49.2879810|-0.1162920|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|arrondissement = Lisieux
|term = 2023–2026
|intercommunality = Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge
|elevation m = 5
|elevation min m = 0
|elevation max m = 15
|area km2 = 5.52
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
|INSEE = 14117
|postal code = 14390
|canton = Cabourg
}}
Cabourg ({{IPA|fr|kabuʁ|-|Fr-Cabourg.ogg}}; {{langx|nrf|Cabouorg}}) is a commune in the Calvados department, region of Normandy, 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.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
Geography
Cabourg is located on the north of France between Caen and Deauville, part of the Côte Fleurie. The town is on the Dives river, across from Dives-sur-Mer.
On 1 January 2017, the town was transferred from the Arrondissement of Caen to that of Lisieux.{{Cite web|date=December 22, 2016|title=Recueil Des Actes Administratifs|url=http://www.calvados.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/recueil_des_actes_administratifs_no143_du_22_decembre_2016.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718182431/www.calvados.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/recueil_des_actes_administratifs_no143_du_22_decembre_2016.pdf|archive-date=July 18, 2021|access-date=November 16, 2021}}
= Climate =
Cabourg has an Oceanic climate with mild summers and cool winters. The proximity of the sea limits large variations in temperature and creates winters without much frost and summers without excessive heat. Wind is frequent especially on the beach.
{{Weather box
|location = Cabourg
|collapsed=y
|Jan low C = 1.8
|Feb low C = 1.9
|Mar low C = 3.2
|Apr low C = 4.9
|May low C = 7.7
|Jun low C = 10.4
|Jul low C = 12.3
|Aug low C = 12.3
|Sep low C = 10.6
|Oct low C = 7.9
|Nov low C = 4.6
|Dec low C = 2.7
|year low C = 6.7
|Jan mean C = 4.5
|Feb mean C = 4.9
|Mar mean C = 6.9
|Apr mean C = 8.8
|May mean C = 12
|Jun mean C = 14.8
|Jul mean C = 17
|Aug mean C = 17
|Sep mean C = 15.1
|Oct mean C = 11.9
|Nov mean C = 7.7
|Dec mean C = 5.4
|year mean C = 10.5
|Jan high C = 7.3
|Feb high C = 8
|Mar high C = 10.5
|Apr high C = 12.7
|May high C = 16.3
|Jun high C = 19.2
|Jul high C = 21.6
|Aug high C = 21.7
|Sep high C = 19.7
|Oct high C = 15.9
|Nov high C = 10.9
|Dec high C = 8.1
|year high C = 14.3
|Jan precipitation mm = 63.5
|Feb precipitation mm = 57.6
|Mar precipitation mm = 56.3
|Apr precipitation mm = 45.6
|May precipitation mm = 58.4
|Jun precipitation mm = 52.3
|Jul precipitation mm = 47.7
|Aug precipitation mm = 46.5
|Sep precipitation mm = 61.4
|Oct precipitation mm = 67.7
|Nov precipitation mm = 84.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 69
|year precipitation mm = 710.8
|source = Infoclimat.fr
}}
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:
{{blockquote|text=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.George D. Painter, Proust: The Later Years (Little, Brown, 1965), p. 84}}
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-14117#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |3067
|1975 |3308
|1982 |3238
|1990 |3355
|1999 |3520
|2007 |4027
|2012 |3712
|2017 |3650
|2020|3511}}Cabourg contains a large amount of secondary/vacation residences. In 2020, there were 10,867 homes with 79.7% of them being classified as "Secondary residences and occasional accommodations".{{Cite web |title=Dossier complet − Commune de Cabourg (14117) {{!}} Insee |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2011101?geo=COM-14117#chiffre-cle-3 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=www.insee.fr |language=fr}}
Culture
Each year in June, Cabourg hosts the International Festival of the Romantic Movie.
Sport
SU Dives-Cabourg is the local football team, after the merger of AS Cabourg with Sport Union Divaise in May 2016, it is based in neighbouring Dives-sur-Mer.{{Cite web|url=https://actu.fr/normandie/dives-sur-mer_14225/rencontre-su-dives-cabourg-charniere-club-pendant-pres-17-ans-laurent-moinaux-passe-main_33297905.html|title=Rencontre. SU Dives-Cabourg : charnière du club pendant près de 17 ans, Laurent Moinaux passe la main|date=28 April 2020|website=actu.fr}}
Personalities
{{expand section|date=May 2016}}
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.[http://www.retaworks.com/random_walk/random_htm/France/Cabourg/Cabourg.htm Cabourg (Balbec)]
- {{Ill|Jean-Pierre Andréani|fr}}
- {{Ill|Charles Bertrand (politician, born 1884)|fr|Charles Bertrand (homme politique)|lt=Charles Bertrand}} (1884, Avesnes-sur-Helpe{{ndash}}1954)
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Bruno Coquatrix (1910, Ronchin{{ndash}}1979)
- Jean-François Dubos
- {{Ill|Tristan Duval|de}}
- Adolphe d'Ennery (1811{{ndash}}1899)
- Jean-Louis Ezine ({{sup|*}}1948, Cabourg)
- Philippe Fourastié
- {{Ill|Jacques Freimuller|fr}}
- {{Ill|Gilgogué|fr}}
- {{Ill|André Lenormand|fr|3=André Lenormand (homme politique)}}
- Corinne Lepage
- Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869–1948),
- Cecil Michaelis
- René-Xavier Prinet (1861, Vitry-le-François{{ndash}}1946)
- {{Ill|Pierre Ucciani|fr}} (1851, Ajaccio{{ndash}}1939)
- Paul Giroud (French physician, summer residence)
International relations
Cabourg has relations with the following cities:{{cite web|title=Relations Internationales|url=http://www.cabourg.net/spip.php?article43&var_recherche=sister|work=cabourg.net|access-date=26 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923195721/http://www.cabourg.net/spip.php?article43&var_recherche=sister#|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=dead}}
- {{flagicon|USA}} Atlantic City, USA
- {{flagicon|GER}} Bad Homburg, Germany
- {{flagicon|CAN}} Bromont, Canada
- {{flagicon|SUI}} Chur, Switzerland
- {{flagicon|LVA}} Jūrmala, Latvia
- {{flagicon|AUT}} Mayrhofen, Austria
- {{flagicon|LUX}} Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg
- {{flagicon|SEN}} Oussouye, Senegal
- {{flagicon|UK}} Salcombe, United Kingdom
- {{flagicon|BEL}} Spa, Belgium
- {{flagicon|ITA}} Terracina, Italy
Popular culture
- Cabourg is the model for Balbec, the fictional seaside town in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
- The Cabourg area, including the small hamlet of Varaville, is the setting for some of the events in the novel Villa Normandie (Endeavour Press, 2015) by Kevin Doherty.
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|URL=http://www.cabourg.net/?lang=en}} {{in lang|en|fr}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20171125105008/http://www.cabourg.com/ Cabourg website] {{in lang|fr}}
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Category:Communes of Calvados (department)
Category:Seaside resorts in France
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