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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.
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.
English: Eugène Lepoittevin, Les Bains de Mer, Plage d’Etretat (Sea Bathing, the Beach at Etretat), 1864, private collection. The young man with a blue bathing cap in the group at left has been identified as Guy de Maupassant.
The Pebbles of Étretat (French: Les galets d'Étretat, Italian: Improvvisamente una sera, un amore, also known as Cobblestones) is a 1972 French-Italian romance-drama film written and directed by Sergio Gobbi. [1] [2] Étretat is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandie region in north-western France.
Monet composed the painting in February 1883 from his hotel window. [1] Subsequently, the painting was bought by the Parisian dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, and then became the property of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 1902. The museum was a forerunner in the collecting of early 20th century Impressionist paintings. [2]
It depicts the chalk cliffs of Étretat, a commune along the northern coast of France. 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 ...
André Le Nôtre was born in Paris,a family of gardeners.Pierre Le Nôtre, who was in charge of the Tuileries Garden in 1572, may have been his grandfather. [3] André's father Jean Le Nôtre was also responsible for sections of the Tuileries gardens, initially under Claude Mollet, and later as head gardener, during the reign of Louis XIII.