The slate-covered façades of the houses lining the waterfront are the most celebrated feature of the port of Honfleur but it is the characteristic quality of light in the harbour that earned it a string of painting admirers. Among others they included the founder of Realism Gustave Courbet of the Origin of the World fame, precursors of Impressionism Johan Jongkind and Eugène Boudin, and what would we do without Claude Monet.
Other proud Honfleuraises included Erik Satie mostly famous for composing the first example of purposely written background music Gymnopédies, Samuel de Champlain - the founder of Québec City and Charles Baudelaire, symbolist poet of the Le fleurs du mal fame
Honfleur’s – pronounced ‘hronfieu’- present appearance of a hedonistic coastal resort town in no way betrays its past as a major slave trade port. In a light-hearted bid to celebrate its lifeline as a fishing port, every October Honfleur forget itself in the abandon of the Fête de La Crevette - the Shrimp Festival.
- Lille - The Nearest Bit Of France
- Mer-les-Bains - Bourgeois Seaside Resort Par Excellence
- Dieppe - Maps, Ivory And Scallops
- Fécamp - Liqueur, Seafood & Norman Vestiges
- The Limestone Arches Of Étretat
- Rouen - The Duck, The Pots & The Cathedral
- Richard the Lionheart's Château Gaillard
- Monet's Japanese Garden in Giverny
- Honfleur - A Picture-Perfect Port
- Mont St.Michel - The Marvel Abbey
- Côte Emeraude - Brittany's Emerald Coast
- St. Malo - The Granite Jewel of Brittany
- Dinard & St. Lunaire - Hangouts Of The Rich
- Jersey - The Bulwark Of Englishness
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