TROUVILLE  , a seaside

town of north-western France, in the department of Calvados, on the English Channel, 34 M . N.E. of Caen by rail . Pop . (1906), 5684 . Trouville is situated on the slopes of well-wooded hills at the mouth of the Touques on its right bank opposite Deauville . Its fine stretches of sand and excellent bathing, a spacious casino and beautiful villas, are among the attractions which make it the most frequented French resort on the channel . Deauville is well known for its race-course and villas, exceeding those of Trouville in luxury, but except during the race fortnight in August (la grande quinzaine) it is quiet and comparatively deserted . The port shared with Deauville and formed by the Touques is entered by a channel between jetties with a depth at high tide of 18i ft . This leads on the one side to a tidal harbour, on the other to an outer and an inner basin . Timber, coals and cement are imported . The London & South Western Railway Company have a daily steamboat service from Havre to Trouville in connexion with their Southampton and Havre boats . Besides trawling and the provisioning of ships, in which Deauville is also engaged, Trouville carries on boat-building and has rope and briquette works .