Blonville-sur-Mer (, literally ''Blonville on Sea'') is a

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in the

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department in the

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in northwestern

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. It is a seaside resort on the Côte Fleurie with a long sandy beach.

Transport

Blonville-sur-Mer is on the railway line from

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Dives-sur-Mer Dives-sur-Mer (, literally ''Dives on Sea''; nrf, Dives sus Mé) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. History It was from harbour of Dives-sur-Mer that William the Conqueror set out on the Norman Conques ...

. The station building (Blonville-Bénerville) is no longer open but train services operate year-round at weekends as well as on week days during the summer season.

Population

Notable people linked to the commune

Deaths

* Jean Baud (1919-2012), founder of

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Others

* Robert Gangnat, representative of the society of dramatic authors. It was at his home that the publisher

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first met Marcel Proust, in August 1908. *

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, French businessman, bought a villa by the sea in 2008. * The writer and member of the

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(1911-1987) lived here from 1974 to 1982 in a villa rented to a professor of medicine.Bernard Gourbin, ''Les Inconnus célèbres de Normandie'', éd. Albin Michel, 1995,

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