Villers-sur-Mer — Brillon de Jouy’s last years, on the Channel coast

Origins and history

Human occupation of the site is attested by archaeologists since the first century BC: during the construction of many villas in the nineteenth century, pottery of that period was found, showing an industry based in part on clay and bound up with the extraction of sea salt, which continued until the nineteenth century — the method being to wash the salted sands and then boil the washing water to extract the salt after drying; the name of the hamlet «les Salines» recalls it. Occupation continued in Roman times, and a Roman road succeeded the earlier tracks. The commune is bordered by the Channel and is a seaside and tourist resort.