Grand Hotel of Cabourg, Cabourg
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Belle Époque Cabourg
5 attractions · 6h 2min · transit route
Tickets ~€9
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About Grand Hotel of Cabourg
The Grand Hôtel de Cabourg is a Belle Époque luxury hotel built in 1907 by architects Lucien Viraut and Émile Mauclerc. The hotel is famous for its connection to Marcel Proust, who stayed here approximately 500 nights between 1907 and 1914, always in Room 414. Proust used the hotel as the primary inspiration for the fictional Grand-Hôtel de Balbec in his masterpiece 'In Search of Lost Time,' writing many pages of this work here.
Grand Hotel of Cabourg — Planning Your Visit
Exterior Viewing Only
This attraction can only be viewed from the outside. Interior access is not available.
Combine with 4 nearby attractions for a full day
From €9 / person — all tickets and transport included — transit route with total cost breakdown
Proust discovered the Grand Hôtel through a Figaro newspaper article on July 10, 1907 and visited shortly after. He would book adjacent rooms on either side of 414 to ensure complete silence, as he wrote through the night and slept during the day, maintaining his Parisian routine even at the seaside.
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