Auberville

Auberville
Auberville
Commune
	The church in Auberville
	Location of Auberville
	Auberville Location within France Auberville Location within Normandy
	Coordinates: 49°18′25″N 0°01′41″W / 49.3069°N 0.0281°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Cabourg
Intercommunality	CC Normandie-Cabourg-Pays Auge
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bertrand Chirot
Area 1	2.62 km2 (1.01 sq mi)
Elevation	110 m (360 ft)
Highest elevation	131 m (430 ft)
Lowest elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population (2023)	609
• Density	232/km2 (602/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14024 /14640
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Auberville (French pronunciation: [obɛʁvil] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

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.

Toponymy

The name was attested in the form Osbertivilla in 1082. It came from the Germanic anthroponym Osbert or alternatively from the Scandinavian Osbern 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 Mayors

From	To	Name	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.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	265	—
1821	219	−0.68%
1846	199	−0.38%
1872	153	−1.01%
1901	198	+0.89%
1926	171	−0.58%
1946	116	−1.92%
1962	124	+0.42%
1968	119	−0.68%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1975	154	+3.75%
1982	137	−1.66%
1990	155	+1.56%
1999	213	+3.59%
2007	452	+9.86%
2012	448	−0.18%
2017	574	+5.08%
2023	609	+0.99%

Source: EHESS and INSEE

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 Auberville
Pierre Ucciani (1851-1939), Corsican painter, he stayed at Cabourg and at Villers and came to paint at Auberville
Julien Turbiau (1876-1934), doctor and amateur painter, he stayed at Villers and came to paint at Auberville
Marie-Renée Ucciani, (1883-1963), painter and sculptor, she stayed at Villers and came to paint at Auberville
Claude Lelouch (born in 1937) director, producer, actor, screenwriter, he had a second home at Auberville

References

↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
↑ Commune d'Auberville (14024), INSEE (in French)
1 2 Google Maps
1 2 Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
↑ René Lepelley, Etymological dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 ISBN 2905461802, BnF 36174448w, p. 52 (in French)
↑ List of Mayors of France (in French)
↑ Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr
↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auberville, EHESS (in French).
↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
↑ Pays d'Auge, September/October 2012, 62nd year, No. 5 ISSN 1149-3305 (in French)
↑ Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Paul Ernest Dupont (in French)
1 2 3 Pays d'Auge, March/April 2012, 62nd year, No. 2, ISSN 1149-3305 (in French)
↑ Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Pierre Ucciani (in French)
↑ Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Julien Turbiau (in French)
↑ Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Marie-Renée Ucciani (in French)"
↑ Jean-Pierre Beuve, Summer special: Normandy - Houses of stars, Le Point, No. 1822, 16 August 2007, Read online, consulted on 9 November 2009 (in French)

External links

Auberville on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
Auberville on the 1750 Cassini Map

[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.

[2] "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.

[3] Commune d'Auberville (14024), INSEE (in French)

[Google-4] 1 2 Google Maps

[adcr-5] 1 2 Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)

[6] René Lepelley, Etymological dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996 ISBN 2905461802, BnF 36174448w, p. 52 (in French)

[7] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[8] Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr

[ehess-9] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Auberville, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-10] Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE

[11] Pays d'Auge, September/October 2012, 62nd year, No. 5 ISSN 1149-3305 (in French)

[12] Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Paul Ernest Dupont (in French)

[Pays_d'Auge_2-13] 1 2 3 Pays d'Auge, March/April 2012, 62nd year, No. 2, ISSN 1149-3305 (in French)

[14] Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Pierre Ucciani (in French)

[15] Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Julien Turbiau (in French)

[16] Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Marie-Renée Ucciani (in French)"

[17] Jean-Pierre Beuve, Summer special: Normandy - Houses of stars, Le Point, No. 1822, 16 August 2007, Read online, consulted on 9 November 2009 (in French)