Blonville-sur-Mer

Blonville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is a seaside resort on the Côte Fleurie with a long sandy beach.

Blonville-sur-Mer
Commune
Countryside and beach
Coat of arms
Location of Blonville-sur-Mer
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Coordinates: 49°20′21″N 0°01′53″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Pont-l'Évêque
Intercommunality	Cœur Côte Fleurie
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Yves Lemonnier
Area ^1	6.8 km^2 (2.6 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	1,545
• Density	230/km^2 (590/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14079 /14910
Elevation	2–112 m (6.6–367.5 ft) (avg. 101 m or 331 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Transport

Blonville-sur-Mer is on the railway line from Deauville to Dives-sur-Mer. 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

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 114 —     1800 332 +191.2% 1806 311 −6.3% 1821 343 +10.3% 1886 360 +5.0% 1901 357 −0.8% 1939 603 +68.9% 1946 645 +7.0% 1962 729 +13.0%

Year Pop. ±% 1968 727 −0.3% 1975 758 +4.3% 1982 889 +17.3% 1990 1,062 +19.5% 1999 1,341 +26.3% 2008 1,605 +19.7% 2013 1,549 −3.5% 2014 1,528 −1.4%

Notable people linked to the commune

Deaths

• Jean Baud (1919-2012), founder of Leader Price.

Others

• Robert Gangnat, representative of the society of dramatic authors. It was at his home that the publisher Gaston Gallimard first met Marcel Proust, in August 1908.[2]
• Vincent Bolloré, French businessman, bought a villa by the sea in 2008.[3]
• The writer and member of the French Resistance René Hardy (1911-1987) lived here from 1974 to 1982 in a villa rented to a professor of medecine.[4]

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Edouard Launet, "Les aventures de Marcel et Gaston", Libération, 6 August 2011
3. Louis Laroque, "Maisons de stars" Archived 2014-09-12 at the Wayback Machine, Le Point, 14 August 2008
4. Bernard Gourbin, Les Inconnus célèbres de Normandie, éd. Albin Michel, 1995, p. 174-179