HONFLEUR, a town of France, at the head of a canton in the arrondissement of Pont l’Évêque in the department of Calvados, is situated on the south side of the estuary of the Seine directly opposite Havre, and about 10 miles to the north of Pont l’Evêque and 37 miles to the north-east of Caen. With the general railway system of northern France it is connected by a line running by Pont l’Evêque to Lisieux; and a concession was granted in 1879 for another line to Pont-Audemer. As a town Honfleur has the typical aspect of a small old-fashioned seaport, equally heedless of symmetry in its plan and cleanliness in its economy. The most noteworthy of its buildings is the church of St Catherine, constructed entirely of timber work and plaster, and consisting of two parallel naves, of which the more ancient is supposed to date from the end of the 15th century. A process of restoration is at present (1880) going on under Government supervision. Within the church are several antique statues and a painting by Jordaens—Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. The church tower stands on the other side of a street. St Leonard’s dates from the 17th century, with the exception of its fine ogival portal and rose-window belonging to the 16th, and its octagonal tower erected in the 18th. The ruins of a 16th century castle, and several houses of the same period, are the only buildings of antiquarian interest. The town-house, which contains the exchange and the commercial court, is of modern erection. On the rising ground above the town is the chapel of Notre Dame de Grâce, a shrine much resorted to by pilgrim sailors, which was founded in 1034 by Robert the Magnificent of Normandy, and rebuilt in 1606. Honfleur is the seat of a commercial college, a school of hydrography, a chamber ...