Auberville () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.Commune d'Auberville (14024), INSEE
Geography Auberville is located on the northern Normandy coast some 8 km east by north-east of Cabourg and 13 km south-west of Deauville. Access to the commune is by road D513 from Houlgate in the west which passes through the village and continues north-east to Villers-sur-Mer. The D163 branches off the D513 in the village and goes south to Branville. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Les Genets, Les Bruyeres, and Le Manoir. The north of the commune is forested along the coast with slopes down to the beach while the rest of the commune is farmland.Google Maps
Toponymy The name was attested in the form Osbertivilla in 1082.Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 It came from the Germanic anthroponym Osbert or alternatively from the Scandinavian OsbernRené Lepelley, Etymological dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 , BnF 36174448w, p. 52 and the old French ville (from the Latin villa) in its original sense of "rural domain".
History Archaeological excavations have found Merovingian tombs.
Administration
List of Successive MayorsList of Mayors of France From To Name Party Position 2001 2008 William Lemarchand 2008 2020 Antoine Grieu Foreman 2020 2026 Bertrand Chirot
Demography The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aubervillais or Aubervillaises in French.Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr
Sites and monuments
The Church of Sainte-Barbe, from the 13th century with a bell-gable. Falaises des Vaches Noires (the site of Chaos). The War memorial at Auberville commemorates the victims of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the First World War, and the Second World War.
Notable people linked to the commune Paul Ernest Dupont (1816-1891), painter, he stayed at Villers and came to paint at AubervillePays d'Auge, September/October 2012, 62nd year, No. 5 ISSN 1149-3305 Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Paul Ernest Dupont Pierre Ucciani (1851-1939), Corsican painter, he stayed at Cabourg and at Villers and came to paint at AubervillePays d'Auge, March/April 2012, 62nd year, No. 2, ISSN 1149-3305 Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Pierre Ucciani Julien Turbiau (1876-1934), doctor and amateur painter, he stayed at Villers and came to paint at AubervilleProgramme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Julien Turbiau Marie-Renée Ucciani, (1883-1963), painter and sculptor, she stayed at Villers and came to paint at AubervilleProgramme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Marie-Renée Ucciani " Claude Lelouch (born in 1937) director, producer, actor, screenwriter, he had a second home at AubervilleJean-Pierre Beuve, Summer special: Normandy - Houses of stars, Le Point, No. 1822, 16 August 2007, Read online, consulted on 9 November 2009
See also Communes of the Calvados department
References
External links Auberville on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Auberville on the 1750 Cassini Map