The seaside resort of Deauville, on the Flower Coast, owes its international fame to the American film festival, which makes it an unmissable cultural hub. Yet there is far more to its brand image than this annual gathering for stars of the silver screen.
This town in Calvados has other distinctive symbols, starting with its huge, sandy beach, brightened up by parasols in five colours which enchant photographers from all countries. The beach is next to the famous Les Planches promenade, a listed historic monument (Monument historique) which runs alongside the Art Deco-style Pompeian Baths, inspired by designs from Antiquity and created by the architect Charles Adda. This iconic place is enhanced by the famous beach huts, created by the same architect in 1923 and named after American actors.
Its charming villas, including the villa Strassburger, the most characteristic of the Belle Époque villas, but also its prestigious hotels, luxury boutiques, thalassotherapy centre and casino complete the picture of this resort, which is certainly associated with high society, but whose glamorous and romantic character is undeniable. Even Trouville-Deauville station, built in the neo-Norman style and listed as a historic monument since 2010, stands out for its two frescoes created in 1932 and its red and yellow paving stones.
The town boasts many green spaces, such as the Lais de Mer park, a vast expanse on the edge of the beach with a playground and a "garden of hearts" dedicated to lovers, but also the Rives de la Touques park, a verdant promenade created on the riverbank; the inter-communal leisure park and its 11 hectares with various areas and playgrounds; the sublime Calouste Gulbenkian park, created by a talented landscape gardener, or the Greenway (Voie Verte) which connects the town centres of Saint-Arnoult and Deauville.
The town is also a major centre for equestrianism, with its prestigious Deauville-Clairefontaine racecourse, inaugurated in 1864, which is one of the leading racecourses in France and organises numerous flat races. The seaside resort also hosts the famous Deauville International Polo Club (world polo championship), and hosts yearling sales and sailing regattas...
"Deauville, every season its pleasures"... Located in the heart of Normandy, seaside resort of international renown, Deauville, symbol of elegance and the art of living, has retained the charm of a city of resort. Two hours from Paris, Deauville ensures a complete change of scenery with its 1900 villas, its typically Norman half-timbered houses, its shops with major brands, its luxury four-star hotels and colorful umbrellas on the sandy beach. Open all year, Deauville lives 90% of tourism and breathes the rhythm of the passing seasons and its many fun, cultural and sports events. At Deauville, the horse is king. Deauville and the horse are like Deauville and the sea: inseparable. Two racetracks, races, jumping, training center, yearling sales, polo, carriage... not to mention the horse riding on the beach at low tide, Deauville lives by and for the horse. Deauville, it is still a lot of things declining in the plural: many sports to practice (tennis, golf, horse riding...), animations to live, visits to imagine, discoveries to make, harbors to sail, spectacles to appreciate...
Deauville, formerly... It was a small village of peasants located on the Mont-Canisy, hillside overlooking the sea. Grouped around the church Saint-Laurent, the hundred inhabitants of "Dosville" lived essentially of the agriculture and livestock. The marshes and dunes, situated below the village and on which the future Deauville was going to be built, were then used to graze cattle and sheep. It was during the summer of 1858 that the Duke of Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, invited to Trouville by his doctor, Dr. Olliffe, imagine to build on this expanse of sand and marsh "a kingdom of 'elegance' close to Paris: it will be the seaside resort of Deauville. Associated with Dr. Olliffe, the banker Donon and the architect Breney, Morny created in four years a city whose casino soon, the Grand Hotel, the beach and the racecourse would attract the aristocratic clientele of Paris and international... During his history straddling three centuries, Deauville has evolved with the times, from seaside tourism a few weeks per year to a year-round resort, without denying its cultural and architectural roots.
Today, the city is committed to a global protection of its environment, in particular by creating a Protection Zone Architectural Heritage, Urban and Landscape. The objective of this ZPPAUP is to protect the entire heritage of the city, without limiting its economic development, but in a harmonious way. You just have to discover the riches. Good walk !
- January: Horse racing - Racecourse of Deauville-La Touques.
- March: Asian Film Festival.
- April:
- Easter festival (classical music).
- Art Shopping Deauville, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
- May: Book Fair of Deauville Books & Music.
- June:
- Sailing: Deauville International Week.
- International Jumping.
- Horse Racing - Hippodrome of Deauville-La Touques.
- Horse racing - Hippodrome of Deauville-Clairefontaine.
- World Bridge Festival.
- Swing'In Deauville (jazz music).
- Horse Racing - Hippodrome of Deauville-La Touques.
- Horse racing - Hippodrome of Deauville-Clairefontaine.
- Lucien Barrière Deauville Polo Cup.
- August musical (classical music).
- Yearling sale.
- Rally Paris-Deauville of old cars.
- Women's Forum.
- Equi'Days: horse racing, horse sales...
- International competition of traditional teams.
- Horse Racing - Hippodrome of Deauville-La Touques.
- Christmas at the Balcony (street arts).
- The Deauville event is played on the Swing In 'Deauville notes, played on a card game with the World Bridge Festival or the European Poker Tournament, is projected on a giant screen with Asian or American film festivals, flips through literary salon Books and Musics, twirls on the classical scores of the Easter Festival and the musical August, marvels with musicians, comedians, jugglers... Christmas at Balcon (street theater festival), revive the "Roaring Twenties" with the Rallye Paris-Deauville of vintage cars, or sail with the brand new international sailing competition Deauville International Week... Deauville, it's also congresses, seminars... all along the year, especially since the creation of the Deauville International Center, which has become an indispensable tool for organizing events.
Exposition : "Zao Wou-Ki, les Allées d'un Autre Monde"
- From 2 march to 26 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville, Musée André Hambourg
- A new monographic exhibition devoted to the work of Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013). A Chinese-born and French-adopted artist whose artistic path borrowed from the tradition of his native country as well as Western modernity, Zao Wou-Ki opened up a new, liberated and free path that Les allées d ? un autre monde explores through the diversity of plastic and intellectual expressions that the artist would explore throughout his life. - Paintings, watercolors, inks, prints, tapestries, ceramics and steles are brought together for the first time in an exhibition that celebrates the practice and thought of a total artist. - His entire existential approach was destined to represent realities beyond those of the visible world. - Produced exclusively for Les Franciscaines in close collaboration with the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation, this project offers a fresh look at the work of an internationally renowned artist. - COMMISSARIAT : Gilles Chazal, General Curator of Heritage, - Honorary Director of the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. - By presenting the work Hommage à Claude Monet (1991), the exhibition will inaugurate the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, of which Les Franciscaines is honored to be a part. - Exhibition courtyard - Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
28e Festival de Pâques de Deauville
- From 6 to 27 april 2024
- 32 avenue Hocquart de Turtot, Salle Elie-de-Brignac - Arqana
- A regular feature of Deauville ? S cultural events, the Easter Festival is all about discovery, sharing and learning. Over the years, the Easter Festival has brought to light five generations of young musicians and chamber ensembles, now well known to all. With the same joyful complicity, elders and cadets have always passed on their passion for chamber music, its recognized masterpieces as well as its rarer works.
Voile : Deauville Ladies’s Cup
- From 27 to 28 april 2024
- Deauville Yacht Club, Quai de la Marine
- In 2019, the French Sailing Federation decided to create a 100% women ? S regatta circuit to facilitate encounters between female sailors, attract new female sailors and promote the role of women in the organization of sporting events and the management of federal structures and clubs. - As part of this process, the Deauville Yacht Club has made Deauville one of the stops on the circuit. It will take place on April 27 and 28, on 8-meter-long sailboats, all strictly identical, so that the focus is on crew performance rather than equipment. - In all, a dozen crews will be competing over the two days on the Planches de Deauville.
Les Franciscaines en Scène : Résidence : "Sur la Route d'Eden"
- On 27 april 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- At the end of their week-long residency, the Sans Roi company will present a working stage of their next piece, exploring the tumult of love and desire, an energy that is difficult to tame. - "Sur la route d ? Eden" is a show that captures the intensity of a particular second. But not just any second. The one that precedes an adolescent's confession of love. That dizzying fraction of time when the body boils and the soul struggles. An inner battle between the forces holding us back and those urging us to act. We are plunged into the world of a young man, witness to the epic story that unfolds within him during this immense second. In his mind, an abandoned childhood village and a dark, infinite forest. What lies on the other side of the forest ? - Text : David Guez Stage direction : David Guez and Edouard Eftimakis Set and lighting design : Manon Vergotte Sound design : Matéo Esnault Costumes : Clément Desoutter Make-up : Tina Hannic Performance : Céline Chéenne, Hermine Dos Santos, Edouard Eftimakis, Alexandre Gonin, Thibaud Guillon-Marchi, David Guez, Paul Meynieux, Leila Muse Candice Pauilhac
28e Festival de Pâques de Deauville : Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg, Gustav Mahler
- On 27 april 2024
- 32 avenue Hocquart de Turtot, Salle Elie-de-Brignac - Arqana
- Program : - Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) - - Kammersinfonie No. 1 Op. 9 - Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - - Kindertotenlieder (arr. Eberhard Kloke) - *** - Max Reger - Suite romantique Op. 129 (arr. Schönberg/Kolisch) - Musicians : - Aude Extrémo, mezzo-soprano - Hanson Quartet - Ensemble Ouranos - L ? Atelier de Musique - Pierre Dumoussaud, conductor - A regular feature of Deauville ? S cultural events, the Easter Festival is all about discovery, sharing and learning. Over the years, the Easter Festival has brought to light five generations of young musicians and chamber ensembles, now well known to all. With the same joyful complicity, elders and cadets have always passed on their passion for chamber music, its recognized masterpieces as well as its rarer works.
Livres & Musiques
- From 3 to 5 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Novelists, biographers, comic book illustrators and authors, children ? S authors, singer-songwriters ? All come together in Deauville for musical readings, literary concerts and unique and original encounters that explore, comment on and illustrate the links and rebounds between writing and music. - Every spring since 2004, the Livres & Musiques literary festival in Deauville has been celebrating the words of music and the music of words, welcoming authors inspired by music and musicians passionate about literature. - "If there is no music in books, there are no books." Marguerite Duras
Livres & Musiques - Lecture Musicale : Écoutons nos Pochettes
- On 3 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every spring, Deauville's Livres & Musiques literary festival celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events. - A musical and visual exploration of what ten album covers evoke, like ten of Proust's madeleines, each accompanied by commentary from the authors. An immersion in the memories and emotions buried deep in our minds, through a reading in several voices. - By Carole Charbonnier and Gilles de Kerdrel, - With the participation of Jean-Didier Beauvallet, Laurent Jézéquel, Pierre Lemarchand and Céline Tolosa.
Livres & Musiques - Concert Littéraire : Les Musiques de Milan Kundera
- On 3 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every spring, Deauville's Livres & Musiques literary festival celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events. - Milan Kundera, whose father was a pianist and musicologist, first considered a career as a composer before turning to writing. Music has always occupied a singular place in his life and work. - Through readings of excerpts from his novels and interviews, accompanied by classical and popular music and songs that have marked or commented on Milan Kundera, this presentation aims to inspire the desire to (re) discover one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. This master of irony and disillusionment has constantly revealed the subtleties of our dreams and lies. - Interspersed with texts by Kundera and fragments from the book "Milan Kundera, Écrire quelle drôle d'idée" by Florence Noiville, as well as projections of photos and unpublished drawings by the author, the evening will also be punctuated by music loved by Kundera, including previously unreleased original compositions. - After 30 years of privileged encounters with Véra and Milan Kundera, Florence Noiville published her book "Milan Kundera, écrire quelle drôle d'idée" in June 2023, shortly before the great writer's death, published by Gallimard. A graduate of HEC and Sciences Po, Florence Noiville left economics and finance to devote herself to writing. Literary critic at Le Monde, responsible for foreign literature, she is also a novelist and biographer, notably of Isaac B. Singer (Prix du Récit biographique) and Nina Simone (Prix Simone Veil), as well as the essays "So British" and "Écrire c ? est comme l ? amour", offering intimate portraits of writers. - "I've often said to myself that I was lucky enough to meet Milan not too young. At the height of his maturity and freedom, he was looking more and more like the silent old man in "La Vie est ailleurs", silently observing some "boisterous" young people." - Florence Noiville - With : Florence Noiville and Ismaël Margain, piano - Readings : Emmanuel Noblet and Florence Noiville - This 90-minute event will be hosted by Philippe Normand.
Remise du Prix Livres & Musiques de la Ville de Deauville
- On 4 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every spring, the Livres & Musiques de Deauville literary festival celebrates the words of music and the music of words through a dozen events. - Presented since 2004 by a jury of writers chaired by Jérôme Garcin, the Prix Livres & Musiques de Deauville is awarded each year to an author inspired by music. The prize is awarded to the author of a literary work published during the year in connection with music. - - 2:30 pm > 3:30 pm : Meet the finalists of the Livres & Musiques selection, hosted by Baptiste Liger, Editor-in-Chief of LIRE, literary magazine. - - 3:30 p.m. > 5:30 p.m. : La grande Dédicace - meetings, one-on-one discussions and book signings with 30 authors and illustrators - Jury writers and guests of this 21st Festival. - - 6pm : Presentation of the Livres & Musiques prize - 20 years of the Festival - by Jérôme Garcin, President of the Jury, and Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville. - - 6:30pm : Conversation with the winner. - - 7pm : Reading of excerpts from the winning book, by actress Anne-Marie Philipe. - - 7:45pm : Literary concert "Les petites et grandes musiques de Françoise Sagan" by Sophie Delassein and Rose.
Livres & Musiques - Concert Littéraire "Les Petites et Grandes Musiques de Françoise Sagan"
- On 4 may 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every spring, Deauville's Livres & Musiques literary festival celebrates the words of music and the music of words with a dozen events. - Accompanied on the piano by Romain Berrodier, Sophie Delassein and Rose offer a musical reading of Sagan's songs, those dedicated to her, as well as the music that marked her life and works. From Brahms to Billie Holiday, the melodies that marked the world of this literary icon are interpreted by Rose and enriched by her own compositions. This creation, organized by Livres & Musiques, pays tribute to the 70th anniversary of the publication of "Bonjour Tristesse" and the 20th anniversary of the death of Françoise Sagan. - Sophie Delassein, renowned journalist and music and literary critic, will present the different facets of Françoise Sagan's musical work, enriching our understanding of this great artist. As for Rose, a talented singer, songwriter and composer, she brings a contemporary dimension to this timeless tribute through her original interpretations and compositions.
