Sainte-Adresse

French commune
name= Sainte-Adresse

region=Haute-Normandie
department=Seine-Maritime
arrondissement=Le Havre
canton= Le Havre
insee=76552
cp=76310
maire=Patrice Gélard
mandat=
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération havraise
longitude=0.084
latitude=49.506
alt moy=100 m
alt mini=0 m
alt maxi=100 m
hectares=226
km²=2,26
sans=8 219
date-sans=1999
dens=3 637|

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

Geography

A coastal suburb situated some convert|2|mi|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.

Population

History

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 know as "The Le Havre Nice", 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 [ 30questions-OccupationVienne)), 8 p ] . 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

* The church of St.Denis, dating from the 19th century.
* The de la Hève lighthouse
* A 15th 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

*Claude Monet, "La pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse", 1864, National Gallery, Londres
*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, "Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse", 1867, 98.1 cm x 129.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
*Claude Monet, "Jardin à Sainte-Adresse", 1867, 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 with links to the commune

* Sarah Bernhardt, actress, built a property here in the late nineteenth century.
* Georges Dufayel, Parisian businessman who built the "Nice-Le Havre" resort and the building that still bears his name.
* Henri de Gaulle and his wife Jeanne, parents of Charles de Gaulle, were born here and are buried here.
* Alphonse Karr, director of" Figaro ", 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

External links

* [http://www.ville-sainte-adresse.fr/ Official town website] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=16829&req=Sainte-Adresse Sainte-Adresse on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the original and the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on September 17th 2008."