Honfleur

Honfleur, a seaport in the French department of Calvados, is situated on the southern side of the Seine estuary, opposite to Havre, from which it is 7 miles distant. It is irregularly built, dirty, and uninteresting. There is a school of hydrography, and one of its churches is a celebrated place of pilgrimage to sailors. The commerce of Honfleur, once of much greater importance than at the present time, has been absorbed in great measure by Havre. But the harbour and its approaches were greatly improved in 1874–81, and there is still a considerable export of eggs, butter, poultry, corn, and cattle, mostly to England, and import of iron and coal, and of timber from Norway. The principal manufactures are leather, cast-metal, and refined sugar. There are also rope-walks and shipbuilding yards. Pop. 9265.