honfleur's

Updated: August 9, 2026

There are but few of the old streets left to crowd about the shipping life that still floats here, as in those bygone days of Honfleur pride; when Havre was but a yellow strip of sand; when the Honfleur merchants would have laughed to scorn any prophet's cry of warning that one day that sand-bar opposite, despised, disregarded, boasting only a chapel and a tavern, would grow and grow, and would steal year by year and inch by inch bustling Honfleur's traffic, till none was left.

Anna Bowman Dodd - In and out of Three Normady Inns