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Étretat is known for being the last place in France from which the 1927 biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) was seen.French World War I war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli were attempting to make the first non-stop flight from Paris to New York City, but after the plane's 8 May 1927 departure, it disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic.
Le Clos Lupin. This Anglo-Norman half-timbered house was built around 1850. In 1918 writer Maurice Leblanc bought a historic villa in Étretat, which he wanted to use for living and working personally.
The 1996 Catalogue Raisonné of Claude Monet by Daniel Wildenstein references this painting as Fishing Boats Leaving Etretat . Monet first visited Étretat in winter 1868–1869, when he painted his first Stormy Sea at Étretat (Musee d'Orsay). From 1883 to 1886, he repeatedly visited the town and created a series of around fifty paintings of ...
The view from the Etretat Gardens. The Étretat Gardens (French: Les Jardins D'Étretat) is a cliff-top experimental garden with "living sculptures" [1] in Étretat, Normandy, France. It surrounds a villa that once belonged to Madame Thébault, [clarification needed] an actress from Paris, [2] in the beginning of the 20th century.
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Stormy Sea in Étretat (1883) by Claude Monet. The Stormy Sea in Étretat is an oil on canvas painting by French Impressionism painter Claude Monet, from 1883.It is held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Etretat Churchyard Extension contains 282 First World War burials and four from the Second World War. The extension also includes 12 German graves. The extension also includes 12 German graves. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield .
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