Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Cabourg is located on the coast of the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Dives. The back country is a plain, favourable to the culture of cereal. Its population increases to some 40,000 during the summer.

It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058.

But the modern Cabourg began in 1853 with the arrival of two Paris financiers in search of a new site for a luxurious watering-place. The railway age had made the Normandy coast accessible to holiday-makers; Dieppe, Trouville and Deauville to the east had already been discovered; but here the adventurers found a virgin expanse of barren dunes and level sea-sands ripe for development. By the 1880s an unreal city of villas and hotels had arisen, in a semicircle whose diameter was the seafront, whose centre was the Grand Hotel, and whose radii were traced by a fan-work of avenues shaded with limes and Normandy poplars.

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