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Sainte-Adresse
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 / 49.51°N 0.08°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Le Havre-6
Intercommunality	Le Havre Seine Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Hubert Dejean de La Batie
Area 1	2.26 km2 (0.87 sq mi)
Population (2021)	7,116
• Density	3,100/km2 (8,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76552 /76310
Elevation	0–100 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.

Sainte-Adresse (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t adʁɛs]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, France.

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.

Climate

Sainte-Adresse has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Sainte-Adresse is 11.8 °C (53.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 789.8 mm (31.09 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 18.4 °C (65.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.7 °C (42.3 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Sainte-Adresse was 38.2 °C (100.8 °F) on 18 July 2022; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −13.8 °C (7.2 °F) on 17 January 1985.

Climate data for Sainte-Adresse (Cap-de-la-Heve,^[3] altitude 100m, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1891–present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	15.0 (59.0)	20.0 (68.0)	24.5 (76.1)	26.5 (79.7)	30.0 (86.0)	34.7 (94.5)	38.2 (100.8)	36.3 (97.3)	33.6 (92.5)	28.5 (83.3)	20.0 (68.0)	16.4 (61.5)	38.2 (100.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	7.6 (45.7)	8.0 (46.4)	10.5 (50.9)	13.3 (55.9)	16.2 (61.2)	19.0 (66.2)	20.9 (69.6)	21.2 (70.2)	19.1 (66.4)	15.5 (59.9)	11.3 (52.3)	8.4 (47.1)	14.3 (57.7)
Daily mean °C (°F)	5.7 (42.3)	6.0 (42.8)	8.1 (46.6)	10.4 (50.7)	13.3 (55.9)	16.0 (60.8)	18.0 (64.4)	18.4 (65.1)	16.4 (61.5)	13.1 (55.6)	9.3 (48.7)	6.5 (43.7)	11.8 (53.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	3.9 (39.0)	3.9 (39.0)	5.6 (42.1)	7.5 (45.5)	10.3 (50.5)	13.1 (55.6)	15.1 (59.2)	15.6 (60.1)	13.7 (56.7)	10.8 (51.4)	7.4 (45.3)	4.7 (40.5)	9.3 (48.7)
Record low °C (°F)	−13.8 (7.2)	−12.5 (9.5)	−7.8 (18.0)	−1.0 (30.2)	1.2 (34.2)	4.4 (39.9)	8.0 (46.4)	8.4 (47.1)	3.3 (37.9)	−0.2 (31.6)	−8.5 (16.7)	−8.6 (16.5)	−13.8 (7.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	67.5 (2.66)	53.7 (2.11)	52.5 (2.07)	52.3 (2.06)	56.5 (2.22)	58.0 (2.28)	48.7 (1.92)	66.0 (2.60)	65.4 (2.57)	86.2 (3.39)	87.5 (3.44)	95.5 (3.76)	789.8 (31.09)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	12.4	11.2	10.1	9.6	9.0	8.6	7.8	9.2	9.1	12.4	13.5	14.7	127.7
Source: Météo-France^[4]

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
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	8,261	—
1975	8,754	+0.83%
1982	8,029	−1.23%
1990	8,047	+0.03%
1999	7,883	−0.23%
2007	7,731	−0.24%
2012	7,426	−0.80%
2017	7,389	−0.10%
Source: INSEE^[5]

History

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.^[6] 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

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

Claude Monet, La pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse, 1864, National Gallery, London
Claude Monet, La Pointe de la Hève à marée basse, 1865, 90.2 × 150.5 cm, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Claude Monet, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, 98.1 cm × 129.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Claude Monet, La plage de Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet, La côte de Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, La mer à Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, Promenade sur les falaises de Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, Régates à Sainte-Adresse, 1867, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Claude Monet, Les cabanes à Sainte-Adresse, 1868
Claude Monet, Rue à Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, La falaise de Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse, bateau à voile échoué
Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet, Sainte-Adresse, bateaux de pêche sur le rivage
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Maison de pêcheurs à Sainte-Adresse, entre 1830 et 1840, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raoul Dufy, La plage de Sainte Adresse, 1902
Alfred Stevens, La Villa des Falaises à Sainte-Adresse, 1884

People

Flavien Belson, footballer
Fanny Dombre-Coste, politician
Claudine Loquen (1965–), French painter
Sarah Bernhardt, actress, built a property here in the late nineteenth century
Caroline Ducey, actress, born to a marine pilot and a science teacher here in 1977
Georges Dufayel, Parisian businessman who built the "Nice havrais" resort and the building that still bears his name
Henri de Gaulle and his wife Jeanne, parents of Charles de Gaulle, are buried here
Alphonse Karr, director of Figaro, launches the first resort in 1841
Prosper Mérimée located the action of his story at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet has painted numerous paintings of the city