Blonville-sur-Mer
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Expand French Template:Infobox French commune Blonville-sur-Mer ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, literally Blonville on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is a seaside resort on the Côte Fleurie with a long sandy beach.
Transport
Blonville-sur-Mer is on the railway line from Deauville to Dives-sur-Mer. The station building (Blonville-Bénerville) is no longer open but train services operate year-round at weekends as well as on week days during the summer season.
Population
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Notable people linked to the commune
Deaths
- Jean Baud (1919-2012), founder of Leader Price.
Others
- Robert Gangnat, representative of the society of dramatic authors. It was at his home that the publisher Gaston Gallimard first met Marcel Proust, in August 1908.<ref>Edouard Launet, "Les aventures de Marcel et Gaston", Libération, 6 August 2011</ref>
- Vincent Bolloré, French businessman, bought a villa by the sea in 2008.<ref>Louis Laroque, "Maisons de stars" Template:Webarchive, Le Point, 14 August 2008</ref>
- The writer and member of the French Resistance René Hardy (1911-1987) lived here from 1974 to 1982 in a villa rented to a professor of medicine.<ref>Bernard Gourbin, Les Inconnus célèbres de Normandie, éd. Albin Michel, 1995, Template:P.</ref>