Originally published on Travelandleisure by Rebecca Rose
Your Dream Trip to France is Waiting in Seaside Normandy
Parisian tastemakers are reinvigorating an old-fashioned corner of Normandy, adding modern flourishes to a rural French idyll.
Christophe Delaune, the effervescent creator of Le Domaine d’Ablon, a group of new luxury demeures, or residences, in Normandy’s Pays d’Auge. This undulating region, traditionally associated with cider, Calvados, and Camembert, is home to the well-heeled seaside town of Deauville—to which Parisians have had easy access since the capital’s Gare St.-Lazare opened in the mid 19th century. Deauville and its equally picturesque neighbor, Honfleur, are now established tourist honeypots (the latter attracts 3.5 million visitors per year) and, as is often the case with such places, have acquired something of a reputation for resting on their laurels.
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