Yport

Yport is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Its inhabitants is Yportais and Yportaises.

Geography

Yport is located at about thirty kilometers in the north of the Havre, in edge of the Manche.

History

The site was probably occupied during the Neolithic period. He was inhabited, after the IVe front century J. - C., by the Calètes.

During the Roman epoch, a way connecting Fécamp to Étretat passed to the current locality Fond Pitron from where a junction towards the village existed. Current D940 took again the layout of this Roman way. The Roman presence was discovered following various archaeological excavations, but nothing proves that the habitat was permanent. Perhaps this was only one site of fishing.

The permanent habitat with Yport is proven only starting from the Early middle ages. The village is then attached to that of Criquebeuf-in-Caux, where the church, the cemetery and the school were, to several kilometers of Yport. It is only at the 19th century that the commune of Yport will exist like such, with in particular the construction of the church. Officially, the commune of Yport is created on January 1st 1843, its first mayor is Jean-Baptiste Feuilloley.

The 19th century marks also the beginning of the rise of fishing. It involves also the rise of the village because of many people are attracted by this employment and the population reaches 1800 inhabitants. The sea front thus evolved/moved much during this period: crawl in 1842, ear in 1858, channel in 1873, body of guard (destroyed in 1905), artillery platform. Dry harbor, the sea front had as a landscape the capstans, the caïques ones and the caloges (old caïques reversed being used as reserve). It is as at the 19th century as the fashion of the baths appears, Yport does not escape from it.

In 1849 and 1884, the village is touched by an epidemic of Choléra.

Currently, fishing disappeared, like everywhere on the Côte of Alabaster, the caïques last having been disarmed in the Sixties. The pace of the village of fisherman however only changed very little. Only the sea front changed.

Yport saw today primarily sound casino in seaside and estival tourism. A large carpark replaced the caloges, while gastronomical tourism made its appearance.

It is interesting at the present time to note the presence of a language yportaise, almost unutilised, but which was pointed out by a great difference with the spoken language with Fécamp.

Administration

Demography

Celebrities

Jef Friboulet (1919-2003), painter, deceased in the commune

Tourism

Cliffs
Pebble beach, beach of stranding, shops on the sea front
Church: built as from 1838, it will be finished only in 1876 after many modifications. Ex-voto.
Casino
Yport is the place where the action the novel a life does without, of Guy of Maupassant

Demonstrations

Torchlight procession on July 13rd.
Festival of the sea and painting on August 15th (mass, blessing, procession of the ex-votos, exposure of paintings, painters and sculptors in the streets and on the beach, auction sale towards 17:00 of the works carried out in the course of the day).

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

Tourism in Yport
Yport on the site of the national geographical Institute
Yport on the site of INSEE
Yport on the site of Quid
Localization of Yport on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Yport on Mapquest

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