Sainte-Adresse

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

Sainte-Adresse
Commune
Pain de sucre (Sugar-loaf) memorial
Coat of arms
Location of Sainte-Adresse
Sainte-Adresse
Sainte-Adresse
Coordinates: 49°31′N 0°05′E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementLe Havre
CantonLe Havre-6
IntercommunalityLe Havre Seine Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2014 - 2020) Hubert Dejean de La Batie
Area
1
2.26 km2 (0.87 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
7,389
 • Density3,300/km2 (8,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
76552 /76310
Elevation0–100 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.

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
Arms of Sainte-Adresse
 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
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population7807826187548029804782198068
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.[2] 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 Bernhardt'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

People

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Jean-Henri Calmon et Jean-Clément Martin (dir.), Occupation, Résistance et Libération dans la Vienne en 30 questions, La Crèche, Geste éditions, coll. « 30 questions », 2000 ISBN 2-910919-98-6, p. 63, p. 8
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