Sainte-Adresse

Sainte-Adresse
Pain de sucre (Sugar-loaf) memorial
Coat of arms
Sainte-Adresse
Location within Upper Normandy region Sainte-Adresse
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Le Havre
Intercommunality	Le Havre
Government
• Mayor	Patrice Gélard
Area1	2.26 km2 (0.87 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	8,068
• Density	3,600/km2 (9,200/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76552 / 76310
Elevation	0–100 m (0–328 ft) (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sainte-Adresse is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A coastal suburb situated some 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Le Havre city centre, at the junction of the D147 and the D940. The English Channel forms the western border of the commune.

Heraldry

The Arms of Sainte-Adresse are blazoned : Quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a tower argent masoned sable, 2 and 3 gules an escallop Or; a cross Or surmounted by an inescutcheon tierced in pale sable, Or and gules.

Population

Historical population of Sainte-Adresse

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	7807	8261	8754	8029	8047	8219	8068
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

History

The chapel of Notre-Dame-des-flots

The oldest known name of the commune was "Caput Caleti" mentioned in 1240. Later known as Saint-Denis-Chef-de-Caux, named after an ancient place of worship and its position on the cape. In 1415, Henry V landed with his fleet, to claim the throne of France.

Starting in 1905, Georges Dufayel, a Parisian businessman, created a residential seaside resort known as Nice havrais (the "Nice of Le Havre"), at Sainte Adresse. The local architect Ernest Daniel directed operations. The Avenue de Regatta on the waterfront is designed in the image of the promenade des Anglais in Nice.

During World War I, Sainte-Adresse was the administrative capital of Belgium. The Belgian government in exile was installed from October 1914 to November 1918 in the Dufayel building, named after the businessman who had built it in 1911. It had at its disposal a post office using Belgian postage stamps.

During World War II, the Germans built several fortifications here for the Atlantic Wall, to defend the port of Le Havre.

Places of interest

Sarah Bernardt's villa

• The church of St. Denis, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The de la Hève lighthouse
• A fifteenth-century manorhouse
• The chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Flots built in 1857
• The Pain de sucre, a mausoleum in memory of General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouëttes by his widow Stephanie Rollier, a cousin of Napoleon.
• The villa of Sarah Bernhardt

Paintings

"Jardin à Sainte-Adresse" by Claude Monet

"Régates à Sainte-Adresse" by Claude Monet

• Claude Monet, La pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse, 1864, National Gallery, London
• Claude Monet, La Pointe de la Hève à marée basse, 1865, 90.2 x 150.5 cm, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, États-Unis.
• Claude Monet, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, 98.1 cm x 129.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Claude Monet, La plage de Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Art Institute of Chicago
• Claude Monet, La côte de Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, La mer à Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, Promenade sur les falaises de Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, Régates à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Claude Monet, Les cabanes à Sainte-Adresse, 1868
• Claude Monet, Rue à Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, La falaise de Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse, bateau à voile échoué
• Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse
• Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse, bateaux de pêche sur le rivage
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Maison de pêcheurs à Sainte-Adresse, entre 1830 et 1840, Musée du Louvre, Paris
• Raoul Dufy, La plage de Sainte Adresse, 1902

People

• Flavien Belson,footballer
• Sarah Bernhardt, actress, built a property here in the late nineteenth century.
• Georges Dufayel, Parisian businessman who built the "Nice havrais" resort and the building that still bears his name.
• Henri de Gaulle and his wife Jeanne, parents of Charles de Gaulle, are buried here.
• Alphonse Karr, director ofFigaro, launches the first resort in 1841.
• Prosper Mérimée located the action of his story at Sainte-Adresse.
• Claude Monet has painted numerous paintings of the city

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official town website (French)
• Sainte-Adresse on the Quid website (French)
• The strange WWI tale of Belgium in Normandy (and how a government infuriated it's king) here - http://www.normandythenandnow.com/sainte-adresse/