Editing Cherbourg (section)

====Cherbourg-Octeville in literature====
*[[Honoré de Balzac]] cites the engineer Joseph Cachin, constructor of the port of Cherbourg, among the men of genius in ''[[Le Curé de village]]'' [The Village Priest] and ''[[La Duchesse de Langeais]]'' [The Duchess of Langeais].<ref>{{Citation|id=Les cordes avaient assez de jeu pour offrir aux fureurs des vagues cette courbure étudiée par un ingénieur, feu [[Joseph Cachin|Cachin]], l'immortel créateur du port de Cherbourg|publisher=Édition {{Interlanguage link|Charles Furne|fr|3=Charles Furne|lt=Furne}}|author=Honoré de Balzac|title=La Comédie humaine|volume=9|page=231}}</ref> Cherbourg is also present in ''[[Le Réquisitionnaire]]'' [The Recruit].<ref>{{Citation|publisher=Édition {{Interlanguage link|Charles Furne|fr|3=Charles Furne|lt=Furne}}|author=Honoré de Balzac|title=La Comédie humaine|volume=15|pages=325–326}}</ref>
*[[Octave Mirbeau]], [[The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel)|''Le Journal d'une femme de chambre'']] [The Diary of a Chambermaid], 1900: In the final chapter, Celestine became the owner of a cafe in Cherbourg
*[[Remy de Gourmont]], ''Un cœur virginal'' [A Virginal Heart], 1907
*[[Ernest Psichari]], ''L'Appel des armes'' [The Call to Arms], 1913
*Gilles Rosset, ''Le Vent dominant'' [The Prevailing Wind], Grasset, 1979
*[[Alexis Salatko]], ''Vingt deux nuances de gris'' [Twenty-two Shades of Grey], 1990
*[[Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod]], ''L’omelette au sucre'' [The Omelette with Sugar], Gallimard, Folio Junior, 1999
*Robert Sinsoilliez, ''Une balle pour rien à Cherbourg'' [A Bullet for Nothing to Cherbourg], 2000
*{{cite book|first=Alexis|last=Salatko|title=Un fauteuil au bord du vide|language=fr|trans-title=A Chair at the Edge of the Vacuum|publisher=Fayard|location=Paris|year=2007|isbn=978-2-213-62615-4}}
* Ken Follett's novel ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' features Cherbourg as the hometown of Jacques Cherbourg, a Frenchman washed ashore in England during the [[European Middle Ages]]. His son, Jack Jackson, travels to France as an adult and meets his father's family in Cherbourg.
* Kimberly Brubaker Bradley set her novel, ''[[For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy]]'' in Cherbourg. The narrator, Suzanne Hall (née David), is a spy for the [[French Resistance]].
* Cherbourg (or to be precise its analog in the [[Lord Darcy (character)|Lord Darcy]] universe) is the setting for [[Randall Garrett]]'s short story "A Case of Identity" and is part of the backdrop for his novel ''[[Too Many Magicians]]''.