Epte

The Epte at Gisors

Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond at Giverny

The Epte is a river in north-western France, which runs into the regions of Haute -Normandie, Picardie and Ile- de -France. It rises in the Pays du Bray on the boundary of the municipality of Le Thil- Riberpré and Compainville and drains generally to the south. Your main branch flows after 113 kilometers of the municipal boundary of Giverny and Limetz -Villez as a right tributary to the Seine. At a length of about 20 kilometers, the Epte forms in the lower reaches of the western boundary of the Regional Natural Park Vexin français.

By Crossed departments

In the Haute -Normandie

• Seine- Maritime
• Your

In the Picardie region

• Oise

In the Ile- de -France region

• Val- d'Oise
• Yvelines

Places on the river

(Sequence in the flow direction )

• Forges- les -Eaux
• Gournay -en- Bray
• Saint- Pierre-es -Champs
• Talmontiers
• Sérifontaine
• Gisors
• Saint- Clair -sur -Epte
• Bray- et- Lû
• Fourges
• Gasny
• Gommecourt
• Giverny

History

In the year 911 the flow was established on this river by the treaty of Saint- Clair -sur -Epte Normandy, even Epte defined as the border between Normandy and the Île -de -France.

Attractions

• The Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet in Giverny: The Epte flows through the town of Giverny, Claude Monet lived in the more than 40 years in their vicinity. In his garden he built with the help of a branch of the Epte the water garden with its famous water lily pond and the Japanese bridge, both of which often gave reasons for his water lilies paintings. The river itself also appears on several of his works, including the image Peupliers au bord de l' Epte.