Honfleur, Deauville and Trouville are a few of the sea resorts on the "Côte Fleurie" (literally the "flowery coast"), near the Seine estuary. Many holiday-makers go there for the beaches and the cultural and social events that make the places famous.


What also characterises Honfleur is the great artistic stirrings that accompanied the birth of Impressionism. Like Norman painters such as Eugène Boudin or Hamelin, many Parisian artists set up their easel in Honfleur: Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Gustave Courbet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Camille Pissaro, Johan Barthold Jongking…

After the impressionist formation, representative painters from different schools came to Honfleur to feel and reconstruct its charms: Georges Seurat and Raoul Dufy were among them.
The painters met with writers such as Baudelaire - whose mother had retired in Honfleur - Alphonse Allais or Henri de Régnier, who were born there, or even the musician Erik Satie who was also born there.

Honfleur on the net :

Website of the town:website of the town: history, heritage, culture, events and town visits.

Postcards of Honfleur : a very pleasant website to visit that will gratify lovers of old boats!