Cabourg (; nrf, Cabouorg) is a

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in the

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department,

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. Cabourg is on the coast of the

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, 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.

Geography

Cabourg is located between Caen and

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, part of the Côte Fleurie. The town is on the Dives river, across from

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 ...

. On 1 January 2017, the town was transferred from the Arrondissement of Caen to that of Lisieux.

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.

History

It was from Cabourg that

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drove the troops of

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back into the sea in 1058. According to Marcel Proust's biographer George D. Painter:

Population

Culture

Each year in June, Cabourg hosts the ''International Festival of the Romantic Movie''.

Personalities

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''.Cabourg (Balbec)
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1954) *

Sandrine Bonnaire Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for ''À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actr ...

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(1910, Ronchin1979) * Jean-François Dubos * *

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(18111899) * Jean-Louis Ezine (1948, Cabourg) * Philippe Fourastié * * * *

Corinne Lepage Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage (born 11 May 1951) is a French politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for t ...

* Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869–1948), * Cecil Michaelis *

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(1861, Vitry-le-François1946) * (1851, Ajaccio1939) * Paul Giroud (French physician, summer residence)

International relations

Cabourg has relations with the following cities: * Atlantic City, USA * Bad Homburg, Germany * Bromont, Canada *

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, Switzerland *

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, Latvia *

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, Austria *

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, Luxembourg *

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, Senegal *

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, United Kingdom *

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, Italy

Popular culture

* 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

External links

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Cabourg website
Communes of Calvados (department) Seaside resorts in France {{Calvados-geo-stub