Cucq (; unofficially also: ''Cucq-Trépied-Stella-Plage''; ) is a
commune in the
Pas-de-Calais
The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the ...
department in the Hauts-de-France
region of France
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/ref> It is made up of three villages: Cucq itself, the village of Trépied in the north and the coastal resort of Stella-Plage to the west.
History
In 1937 the government sold 1600 hectares of the warrens of Trépied, land of the former domain of the Abbey of St. Josse that was confiscated at the time of the French Revolution, to Jean-Baptiste Daloz. Most of this area became better-known later as Le Touquet
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (, Picard language, Picard: ''Ech Toutchet-Paris-Plache''), commonly referred to as Le Touquet (), is a Communes of France, commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, northern France. ...
, a separate commune, in 1912.
Population
Notable people
* Matthieu Bataille
Matthieu Bataille (born 26 July 1978 in Cucq) is a French judoka
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.� ...
, judo champion
* Pauline Parmentier
Pauline Parmentier (; born 31 January 1986) is a French former tennis player.
Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 40, which she attained on 21 July 2008. On 30 April 2012, she peaked at No. 89 on the WTA doubles rankings. She won four singl ...
, tennis player
* Michael Curtis "Yogi" Stewart, basketball player
* Pauline Crammer, football player
* Ophélie David, skier
See also
*Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
The following is a list of the 887 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
References
External links
Tourism Office of Stella-Plage
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Communes of Pas-de-Calais