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ETRETAT

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ETRETAT , a watering-See also:

place of See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Seine-Inferieure, on the See also:coast of the See also:English Channel, 161 m. N. by E. of See also:Havre by road. Pop. (1906) 1982. It is situated between See also:fine cliffs in which, here' and there, the See also:sea has worn archways, pinnacles and other curious forms. The small stream traversing the valley, at the extremity of which Etretat lies, flows underground for some distance but rises to the See also:surface on the See also:beach. A See also:Roman road and See also:aqueduct and other Roman and Gallic remains have been discovered. The See also:church of Notre-See also:Dame, a Romanesque See also:building, with a See also:nave of the 11th See also:century and a central See also:tower and See also:choir of the 13th century, is a fine example of the See also:Norman See also:architecture of those periods. Fishing is carried on, though there is no See also:port and the fishermen haul their boats up the beach; the old hulks (caloges) serve as sheds and even as dwellings. Etretat sprang into popularity during the latter See also:half of the 19th century, largely owing to the frequent references to it in the novels of See also:Alphonse See also:Karr.

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