Étretat

Étretat is a common department of the Seine-Maritime, in the area High-Normandy, in France.

At one time modest village of fishermen, Étretat is today a Seaside resort of reputation, appreciated for its cliffs and its pebble beaches, in the north of the Havre in Normandy, on the littoral of the Manche and the Pays of Caux. It draws its reputation from the cliff S which frame the village and the beach and which inspired by the impressionist painters Claude Monet or Eugene Boudin. An adventure of Arsene Lupin, hero of Maurice Leblanc, proceeds there: the Needle digs . The writers Flaubert and Maupassant were faithful beach and village.

One finds on northern cliff of Étretat (known as of Upstream) a museum and a monument dedicated to Charles Nungesser, François Coli and with their plane “the white Bird”.

Geography

A cliff consists of limestone. With the foot of cliff there are falls. It refers there also on cliff; these features are called layers.

Geology

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History

Guy Of Maupassant passed there his childhood in the house " Verguies".

Heraldic

Origins

Secondary agglomeration in the Antiquity, Étretat was connected to Iuliobona (Lillebonne) by a Roman Voie. Several traces of this Gallo-Roman past were put at the day: a Aqueduc of three kilometers destroys in first half of the 19th century, the currencies, of the vases, a villa, a cemetery with incineration… Contrary to the allegations of Mr. Lindon who devotes a whole page to the etymology of Etretat, all more whimsical ones that the others, the name of Etretat is not Gallo-Roman and still Latin. It is about a Scandinavian name of origin in an area or their density is maximum in Normandy. old forms: Strutat about 1040, Estrutat or Estrutart constant forms of 12th at the 15th century (cf F.de Beaurepaire, in the communes of the Seine-Maritime, ED. Picardy) The first element is found in Eturville (Handle), in Etreville and Eturqueraye (Eure), not elsewhere in France and due. It is the Scandinavian name of origin styri or stor, which survives in Norman family name: Estur (E) or Eture. the second element is probably the Scandinavian stadr: firm, the final - At not existing in Normandy (At = language of oc for E, or forms auvergnate - ac, the shape of oil = there, - ay, - ey or - E)

The XIXe century

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The XXe century

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Administration

Demography

Economy

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Monuments and tourism

The cliff of Downstream: the Arch and the Needle

Maritime erosion formed a natural Arche and a needle, piece relic of cliff. Maurice Leblanc describes it in these terms: “Enormous Rock, high of more than eighty meters, obelisk colossal, of balance on its basis of granite” in the Needle digs , 1909. At its time already, the site attracted many tourists among whom “lupinophiles”, admirors of Arsene Lupin: American students come to seek the key of the cave where the “gentleman burglar” had found the Trésor kings of France. The film Arsene Lupin of Jean-Paul Salome, left in October 2004, offers many sights on the cliff and the Needle.

See to it video catch of a boat on the face Air-side, with the arch, the needle, Manneporte

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