Trouville-sur-Mer

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Trouville-sur-Mer

(2020–2026) Sylvie de Gaetano^[1]Area

6.79 km² (2.62 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

4,622 • Density680/km² (1,800/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14715 /14360

Elevation0–148 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 (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 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

Trouville-sur-Mer is twinned with:

References

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