DEAUVILLE HAS BEEN A MAGNET FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE SINCE ITS CREATION. WRITERS, MUSICIANS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, FASHION DESIGNERS, FILMMAKERS, PAINTERS... THEY HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE SEA, THE LIGHT AND THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE CITY. PATRIMONIAL PLAQUES HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THE PLACES THEY HAVE MARKED.

© Ville de Deauville

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

11 avenue Lucien Barrière (La Villa Homme store)

The fashion designer opened her first boutique in Deauville in 1913. She imposed casual and elegant clothes.

Read more

Virginie Meigné

Claude Lelouch

Place Claude Lelouch

His film A Man and a Woman, released in 1966, received nearly 50 international awards and Deauville became the eternal meeting place for romance.

Read more

© Naïade Plante

Eugene Boudin

On the stone dike

The precursor of Impressionism liked to set up his easel on the sea wall. He built a house in Deauville in 1884 (at 8 rue Olliffe) where he spent the last 14 years of his life.

Read more

© Ville de Deauville

Françoise Sagan

Boulevard Cornuché (Casino)

Deauville played a special role in the life of the novelist. On August 8, 1958, at the casino in Deauville, she bet on 8 and won 8 million francs, with which she bought the house she had rented near Honfleur at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Read more

Claudine Vazeille

André Hambourg

Les Planches (cabin n°181)

The 20th century marine painter developed a figurative art, inspired by the landscapes of the Côte Fleurie. 531 of his paintings have been bequeathed to the City of Deauville.

Read more

Roger Kahan via Wikimedia Commons

Jean Gabin

Corner of Hunebelle and Victor Hugo streets

The actor lived in Deauville between 1956 and 1974 and shot some of his films there. In 1961 he acquired the Villa La Malmaison, which he renamed La Grande Villa.

Read more

© Naïade Plante

Guillaume Apollinaire

1 rue Désiré le Hoc (Hôtel Continental)

 

In July 1914, for a report on the summer cultural season in Deauville, the newspaper Comoedia commissioned Apollinaire to write the articles, and Rouveyre, a painter and caricaturist, to illustrate them.

Read more

Close

Contact us:
+33 (0)2 31 14 40 00
info@indeauville.fr


Our tourist information offices :

DEAUVILLE TOURISM
Résidence de l'Horloge
Quai de l'Impératrice Eugénie
14800 Deauville
See opening hours

VILLERS-SUR-MER TOURISM
Place Jean Mermoz
14640 Villers-sur-Mer
See opening hours

BLONVILLE-SUR-MER TOURISM
32 bis avenue Michel d'Ornano
14910 Blonville-sur-Mer
See opening hours

VILLERVILLE TOURISM
40 rue du Général Leclerc
14113 Villerville
See opening hours

TOUQUES TOURISM
20 Place Lemercier
14800 Touques
See opening hours

TOURGÉVILLE TOURISM
Promenade Louis Delamare
(behind the first-aid post)
14800 Tourgéville
See opening hours