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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.
[3] [4] According to director Maryse Alix, in 2016, the Clos Lupin attracts 17,000 to 25,000 annual visitors, and that Clos Lupin is "the most visited writer's house in France. [ 5 ] Description
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.
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.
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.
The point where Great Britain is closest to continental Europe, on a clear day the cliffs are visible from France, approximately 20 miles (32 km) away. A celebrated UK landmark, the cliffs have featured on commemorative postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail , including in their British coastline series in 2002 and UK A-Z series in 2012.
The chalk cliffs at Étretat, a commune in France; Cliffs at Étretat (Massachusetts), a painting by Claude Monet in the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts; Cliffs at Étretat, a painting by Claude Monet in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow
The Chateau du Molay was built on the northwest side of town about two and a half centuries ago [when?] in 45 acres of wooded grounds.. In 1758, a young Jacques-Jean le Coulteux du Molay (1740–1823), and his wife Geneviéve –Sophie le Coulteux de la Noraye (painted below in 1788); built the chateau, his first large residence, in the heart of Normandy's woodland countryside, close to Rouen ...