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.
Exposition : Affiches Artistiques des Jeux de Paris 2024
- From 5 march to 4 april 2024
- 3 avenue de la République, Pôle Omni'Sports
- For the first time in the history of the Games, eight artists have been invited to create diptychs comprising an Olympic poster and a Paralympic poster. 24 communities with the Terre de Jeux 2024 label, including the town of Deauville, will successively host this traveling exhibition of 14 large-format (2.5 x 3.5 m) artistic posters. - As part of the Cultural Olympiad, this program offers artists a unique creative opportunity to help build the collective memory of the Games by creating a body of original works of art that express, through images, Olympic and Paralympic values such as inclusion, parity, celebration and innovation. - The artists behind the 14 artistic posters for the Games : - Stéphanie Lacombe : "Intervalle" and "Silence" - photography - Pierre Seinturier : "Pelouse interdite" and "Joueuse de Goalball donnant le coup d ? envoi" - pencil on paper and digital realization - Gilles Elie : "La ligne bleue : Breaking" and "La ligne bleue : course en fauteuil" - acrylic on linen canvas - Fanny Michaëlis : "Olympe 2024" and "Sans titre" - ink on paper, digital coloring - Elsa et Johanna : "Un dimanche pas comme les autres" and "Célébration" - Photography - Clotilde Jiménez "Danseurs dans l ? eau" and "Relais" - acrylic and paper collage - Adam Janes - "Untitled (three people)" and "Untitled (two people)" - digital drawing on canvas - digital drawing on canvas. - "We'd never before dealt with the subject of sport and the Games, and it seemed really interesting to try to develop our visual universe and the themes that are specific to it in a project such as art posters. The challenge was both to respond to the different challenges of such a global event, with a concern for universality, while respecting our artistic universe." Elsa & Johanna - "Taking part in this competition was a real challenge, with stimulating constraints that enabled me to propose these two creations. This project reminded me of the many similarities between art and sport : the repetition of a gesture to perfection, the beauty of movement, rigor… All these common points inspired me to create these two posters highlighting the Games." Pierre Seinturier - About the Terre de Jeux 2024 label - The label was created to enable local authorities to be closely involved in the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It enables players in the sporting movement and local authorities of all sizes to get involved in the Olympic and Paralympic adventure by making sport a more integral part of the lives of their residents. - About the Cultural Olympiad - From the outset of the Games, culture has been one of the three pillars of Olympism, along with sport and education. At Paris 2024, culture will be the focus of the Cultural Olympiad, a cultural program that explores the link between art, sport and Olympic values. From now until the Games, Paris 2024 is encouraging artists, companies, associations, local authorities and the sporting movement to take part in the cultural programming of the Games throughout France. - Open Monday to Friday.
Les Rendez-Vous Friendciscaines - Le Cinéma Muet
- On 19 march 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every Tuesday, the Friendciscaines get-togethers, devised by the Franciscaines team, are a chance for friends ? Subscribers, - Visitors, the curious, curators, lecturers and mediators. - Open and convivial, this time of discovery and sharing around what brings people together allows them to discuss the collections, the programming and discover the facilities or even the backstage… - Long before the American Film Festival, every summer Deauville welcomed the stars of silent cinema on the beach, at the races or at La Potinière. Lili Damita, Henri Diamant-Berger, Pearl White, Annette Kellermann and Harry Pilcer are just some of the forgotten names who once graced the silver screen. - Emmanuel Causse, cultural mediator at Les Franciscaines, offers a panorama of French silent cinema from the First World War to the first French talkie, in 1929.
Les Rencontres du Musée : L'art de la Tapisserie Contemporaine au Mobilier National
- On 23 march 2024
- 145B avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville, Salon des bains
- Lucile Montagne, heritage curator, describes the role of the Mobilier National in supporting the arts and crafts since the 17th century, as both a heritage center and a major player in contemporary creation and the French decorative arts, in conjunction with the exhibition "Zao Wou-Ki, les allées d'un autre monde", featuring the only tapestry ever made from a carton by the master. - Since 1937, the Manufacture nationale des Gobelins and the Manufacture nationale de Beauvais have been part of the Mobilier national, weaving tapestries based on contemporary works. While some artists are well known for their tapestries, such as Picasso, Jean Lurçat and Le Corbusier, there are also some fine discoveries to be made by contemporary artists, such as the recent creations by Manufacture nationale des Gobelins for Alain Séchas. - Lucile Montagne is Heritage Curator / Collections Inspector, Head of the Inspection Department at the Mobilier national et manufactures nationales.
Vide-Grenier du Comité de Jumelage de Touques
- From 23 to 24 march 2024
- 118 ter avenue de la République, Salle des fêtes
- The Twinning Committee of Touques organizes a sale of clothes and various objects with about sixty exhibitors.
Rencontre : Élisabeth Quin s’Entretien Avec Sylvain Tesson
- On 24 march 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Journalist, writer and presenter of the Arte program "28 minutes", Élisabeth Quin is this year leading a series of interviews on ecology and the issues raised by our relationship with living beings. - For this interview, she welcomes Sylvain Tesson, writer-traveler and long-distance adventurer whose stories and essays from the four corners of the globe form a chronicle of our world. Born in Paris in 1972, Sylvain Tesson began climbing monuments at night with a few high school friends, before setting off on a round-the-world bicycle trip, the subject of the collection "On a roulé sur la terre". With his post-graduate diploma in geography in hand, Sylvain set off on a six-month pilgrimage to the Himalayas, leading to the steppes of Central Asia, Siberia in the footsteps of gulag escapees, a cabin on the shores of Lake Baikal, and an album about the war in Afghanistan ? Drawing on these experiences, Sylvain Tesson shares his thoughts on solitude, space and silence, three essentials that future generations may come to miss. - Followed by a signing session
Les Rendez-Vous Friendciscaines - La Réhabilitation des Mérovingiens
- On 26 march 2024
- 145b avenue de la République, Les Franciscaines - Deauville
- Every Tuesday, the Friendciscaines get-togethers, devised by the Franciscaines team, are a chance for friends ? Subscribers, - Visitors, the curious, curators, lecturers and mediators. - Open and convivial, this time of discovery and sharing around what brings us together enables us to discuss the collections, the programming and discover the facilities or even behind the scenes… - The image we retain of these men who came to invade Roman Gaul from the 5th century onwards is that of barbarians, without faith or law. However, certain sources tell a completely different story, far from the stereotypical image that has circulated over the centuries. Clara Boisset, in charge of the museum collections, takes a look back at the history of the Merovingians in Normandy and presents a much more nuanced vision.
Voile : Branle-Bas de l’Estuaire - Top Marine
- From 30 to 31 march 2024
- Deauville Yacht Club, Quai de la Marine
- A classic in the Deauville Yacht Club program, counting towards the Baie de Seine championship. - Every year, this major Easter weekend regatta welcomes some twenty participants (cruisers and sportboats) who compete on banana and coastal courses.
Championnat National des Épreuves Techniques des Arts Martiaux Chinois
- From 30 to 31 march 2024
- 3 avenue de la République, Pôle Omni'Sports
- Organized by the French Karate Federation, the competition is open to minimes, cadets, juniors, seniors and veterans (male and female). - wushu taolu and traditional kung fu - kung fu and wushu are words borrowed from Chinese, and although they have distinct meanings, they are used in the West to designate Chinese martial arts. - Wushu means art, skill, hence martial art, and encompasses all Chinese martial arts. - Kung fu means work or merit. It therefore refers to an aptitude acquired after a long apprenticeship and a great deal of practice. - Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, modern wushu has been developed in a sporting version to standardize traditional Chinese martial arts and group together the main styles. Modern wushu encompasses two main practices : a choreographed exhibition of fighting with bare hands or weapons (Taolu), and a full-contact sport (Sanda). - wing chun - Wing chun is a martial art specializing in self-defense and close combat. - taijiquan - Tai chi chuan or tai chi is a martial art practiced both for its self-defense applications and for its health benefits. Based on the circulation of energy (Qi), it is one of the so-called "internal" styles of wushu.
Concert : Electro Deluxe
- On 30 march 2024
- 2 rue Edmond Blanc, Casino Barrière Deauville
- After 8 albums, a Victoire du jazz award and concerts all over the world, the band invites us to celebrate a longevity that is extremely rare in the musical landscape. - This year, Electro Deluxe presents a repertoire drawn from all their albums, from their beginnings to the present day. - Founded in 2001, the band made a name for itself with a unique, original sound, a super-vitamined cocktail of soul and funk with an instantly recognizable character. Since then, the band's relentless rhythm section, explosive brass section and charismatic singer have continued to explore musical frontiers without regard to boundaries or labels. - This 20th anniversary tour is a fitting tribute to a long-standing career, marked by a powerful bond forged over time between band and audience. The stage is the natural environment in which Electro Deluxe really comes into its own. - Come and discover this intense and unique experience.