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.
Transport
Blonville-sur-Mer is on the railway line from Deauville to Dives-sur-Mer. The station building is no longer open but train services operate year-round at weekends as well as on week days during the summer season.Notable people linked to the commune
Deaths
- Jean Baud, 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.
- Vincent Bolloré, French businessman, bought a villa by the sea in 2008.
- The writer and member of the French Resistance René Hardy lived here from 1974 to 1982 in a villa rented to a professor of medicine.