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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.
It opened to the public in June 1999, after the house was bought by Maurice Leblanc's granddaughter, Florence Boespflug-Leblanc. Le Clos Lupin houses photos, paintings, writings and other personal accessories, some of which are original, as well as clothing and other utensils from his fictional hero Arsène Lupin.
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.
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.
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.
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.