A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D 940, the D 78 and the D 1015 roads.

The mouth of the river Bresle meets the English Channel here, in between the high (110 metres or 360 feet) chalk cliffs and the pebbly beach.

Le Tréport (the ancient Ulterior Portus) was a port of some note in the Middle Ages, when it experienced several invasions by English forces.

[5] The patronage of Louis-Philippe and his family, residing regularly in Eu, inaugurated Le Tréport as a popular seaside resort.

The Parisian upper middle class wasted no time in building villas on the waterfront and led a social life there until the eve of the Second World War.

A college in Tréport was subsequently named after Rachel Salmona, a 10-year-old girl interned in nearby camps at Dieppe and Drancy, before deportation to the more notorious Auschwitz in February 1943.

To deter Allied landings in the Tréport area, the German Army tunnelled into the sea cliffs, creating several subterranean galleries.