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Loneliness seaside

            Beach and coastline at Plage de Yport (in English: "Yport Beach"), Yport, Normandy, France

Some background information:

Yport is a little coastal town in the department of Seine-Maritime. It is located by the English Channel in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. With its almost 800 residents the commune is nestled in the bold cliffs of the coastal area Côte d'Albâtre (in English: "Alabaster Coast"), which is forming almost all of the coastline of the Seine-Maritime department.

The site was probably already occupied during the neolithic period. During Roman times, a road connecting Fécamp to Étretat passed through the locality at Pitron Fund from where a junction towards the village existed. The current road D940 follows exactly the route of this former Roman road. In the early Middle Ages the village was attached to Criquebeuf-en-Caux, where the church, the cemetery and the school were located, several kilometres away from Yport.

However, the first port facilities at Yport weren’t documented until the 17th century. At that time the only source of life of Yport’s inhabitants was fishing. In the middle of the 19th century, Yport’s total population was much higher than today, as the municipality had as much as 1,800 residents back then. Many people had been attracted by the rise of sea-fishing and therefore had moved there. A church was built and the port facilities were expanded by a loading dock, a jetty and a deepened channel for landing ships at low tide. The sea front evolved considerably during this period and Yport as a working port had fishing-smacks, skiffs, caïques and other vessels moored up to the bollards.

During the 19th century, sea-bathing came into fashion, and of course Yport did not escape from it. In those days Yport also attracted writers and painters. Guy de Maupassant’s novel "Une vie" is set in Yport, while the painters Claude Monet, Paul Colin and Pierre-Auguste Renoir used the town and its setting as a subject of some paintings. That why today Yport is bordering the so-called "route of the impressionists".

In 1849 and again in 1884, the village was hit by cholera epidemics. Later, in the 1960s, fishing decreased, like everywhere on the Côte d'Albâtre. However, the pace of life in the fishing village changed only very little. Nowadays, Yport is primarily a tourist town, with a casino, the beach and many quality restaurants. It is a bit overshadowed by its neighbouring towns, the much larger Fécamp to the east and the touristically more popular Étretat to the west. Nevertheless, it is still a great place to spend some time at the seaside.

The Côte d'Albâtre is part of the French coast of the English Channel, corresponding to the coastline of Pays de Caux. Since 2009 it has been classified as a Natura 2000 site. It takes its name from the white hue of its high chalk cliffs, including those of Étretat, which stretch for over 120 km, dominating most of the coastline. The Côte d'Albâtre is part of the same geological system as the White Cliffs of Dover on the far side of the English Channel.

The Côte runs from the large container port of Le Havre to the small fishing village of Le Tréport, taking in the town of Dieppe, as well as Fécamp and Saint-Valery-en-Caux. Three river valleys punctuate the cliff face, making way for the harbours of Fécamp sheltering on the Valmont river, Dieppe on the Arques, and Tréport on the Bresle.

The Côte d’Albâtre was a favourite subject of Impressionist painters, including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Other artists who painted the coastline include Gustave Courbet and Eugène Boudin.  Furthermore, the coastline was also frequented by composers associated with sea such as Claude Debussy and Albert Roussel. Finally the writer Guy de Maupassant grew up on the Côte d'Albâtre at Étretat, while other writers like the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne or the French mystery writer Georges Simenon visited this seacoast too.

Taken in: France / Normandy / Arrondissement du Havre / Yport (show map)

Taken on: September 3, 2020

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