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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.
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.
During the guided tour of the museum in English or French, via an audio guide, the visitor learns numerous personal things about his life and work from the supposed voice of Maurice Leblanc. The stages are accompanied by a variety of visual special effects.
The GR21 is a long-distance hiking trail in Normandy, France.It is part of the GR network of trails. It begins at the port city of Le Havre, a Unesco World Heritage Site (for its post-World War II modernist architecture), climbs through parkland to Montivilliers, then follows the chalk cliffs of the Pays de Caux for most of the route.
From Dieppe to Le Havre the coast presents an uninterrupted cliff, about a hundred metres high and straight as a wall. Here and there that great line of white rocks drops sharply and a little, narrow valley, with steep slopes, shaved turf and maritime rushes, comes down from the cultivated plateau towards a beach of shingle where it ends with a ravine like the bed of a torrent.
On a clear day the cliffs are visible from the French coast. The chalk cliffs of the Alabaster Coast of Normandy in France are part of the same geological system. The White Cliffs are at one end of the Kent Downs designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [6] In 1999 a sustainable National Trust visitor centre was built in the area.