Sea Cliffs, Etretat, France

Étretat is a commune within the Seine-Maritime department in Normandie region in north-western France. It is a tourist and farming city settled regarding thirty two metric linear unit (20 mi) northeast of metropolis, at the junction of the D 940 and D 139 roads. It's located on the coast of the Pays American state Caux space.

The cliffs

Étretat is best well known for its cliffs, including 3 natural arches and the pointed "needle". These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists containing Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet, and were featured prominently in the 1909 Arsène woody plant novel The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc.

Two of the 3 notable arches area unit seen from the city, the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third and therefore the biggest one, and can't be seen from the town.



Étretat was the birthplace of Élie Halévy (1870–1937), philosopher and student.
Guy de Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) used up most of his childhood in Étretat, at "Les Verguies". In 1882 he wrote a short story for Le Gaulois granted "The Englishman of Étretat" (L'Anglais d'Étretat), based on encounters in 1868, as a house guest of G. E. J. Powell, with the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he had helped save from drowning. The dried human hand exhibited on one of the tables was later acquired by Guy de Maupassant to adorn his Paris apartment; it galvanized another story, "The Flayed Hand" (La Main Écorchée). In 1883 he built his own house in Étretat, "La Guillette", since renamed rue Guy-de-Maupassant. Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), the great French classical music baritone whose career centred on Paris and London, also in hand a villa there.