DIVES-SUR-MER, a small port and seaside resort of north western France in the department of Calvados, on the Dives, 15 m. N.E. of Caen by road. Pop. (1931) 5,466. Dives is the harbour whence William the Conqueror sailed to England in Io66. In the porch of its church (i4th and isth centuries) a tablet records the names of some of his companions. The town has a picturesque inn, adapted from a building dating partly from the i6th century, and market buildings dating from the i4th to the i6th centuries. The coast near Dives has many small watering-places, Cabourg (to the west) and Beuzeval and Houlgate (to the east) being prac tically united with it. There are large metallurgical works with electric motive power close to the town.