Yport

Yport is a municipality with 963 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the French department of Seine -Maritime in the Haute-Normandie region.

Geography

Yport is geographically part of the Pays de Caux. The former fishing port and tourist destination today is less steep chalk cliffs ( Falaises ) the Alabaster coast about 30 kilometers north of Le Havre on the English Channel.

History

The Pays de Caux was allegedly inhabited in the Neolithic period. After the 4th century BC, it was through the Caleten, a Gallic tribe inhabited.

In Roman times, went up on the cliffs, called by the fund today Pitron district, a street of Fécamp to Etretat, the course follows the current D940. Archaeological excavations According to this there was a turn off main route between the rocks down to the sea, but is not a permanent Roman settlement on site of the present yport detectable. It is assumed that a fishing port.

A documented proof of a seaside settlement, which was tied to the above location on the plateau Criquebeuf -en- Caux with church, cemetery and school is to lead only for the late Middle Ages. First port facilities are documented for the 17th century. An independent municipality yport with its own church but only goes back to the 19th century. Founding date of the comune is January 1, 1843 Jean -Baptiste FEUILLOLEY as its first mayor.

Main source of income of the community was fishing. He offered virtually the only jobs for the 1800 inhabitants comprehensive settlement. To the center and in the second half of the 19th century, the port facilities were expanded: A loading dock was built in 1842, an extended pier in 1858, an in-depth fairway to land the ships at low tide in 1873, a guardhouse with artillery platform for the defense in 1852 (1905 demolished). For obtaining the ships at the pebble beach was needed capstans ( Cabestans ), and as a tool shed were called caloges ( upturned boats - caiques - with an opening and cover - often Reet - provided ).

In the years 1849 and 1884 the church was pulled by a cholera epidemic affected.

As everywhere in the Côte d' Albâtre fishing plays a very minor role in yport in the 21st century. The last fishing huts disappeared in the 1960s. In its place is now located a large parking lot. Yport now lives mainly on its casino and tourism.

A local fisherman dialect ( langue yportaise ), which has almost disappeared in the 21st century is very different from spoken inland local dialects of the peasants; however, is also a social component to the extent documented misunderstandings.

Demographics

Source: INSEE data yport

Yport in painting and literature

Like the entire Côte d' Albâtre is yport is located on the so-called Impressionists route. The harbor and the rocky coast inspired example as motif Claude Monet (watercolor Les falaises à yport, 1861), Paul Colin (La vallée d' yport, 1880 ), Pierre -Auguste Renoir ( Maree basse à yport, 1883 ) and Albert -Auguste Fourie ( Un repas de noces à yport, 1886).

Guy de Maupassant's novel Une vie (1883 ) plays in yport.

In Georges Simenon Maigret et la vieille detective novel lady (1950 ) when the victim comes from Rose yport.

Yport venue is also in contemporary French literature by Frederic H. Fajardie ( four-page novella Un soir d' hiver à yport in chrysalis des villes, 1999), Pierre Guyaut - Genon (Le rivage of Egares, 2002) and Aristide Frémine ( Un Benedictin, 2002).

Yport today

The tourist image that gives the community, builds on the historical tradition, although the port facility is transformed into a beach promenade. Boats lying on the pebble beach, is the only hotel set in a historic building with half-timbered tower of the 19th century. Holiday houses and fish restaurants convey by their name components (La Caique, the Cabestans ) fishing village associations. The limited capacity to prevent overloading of the place.

The main attraction are the vertical descending to the sea chalk cliffs on both sides of the place. As in Etretat Falaise d' amont the eastern and the western Falaise d' Aval is called; However, they range in their formations not come close to the range of variation of the known neighboring town. Caves at ground level can be seen even rudimentary that here apartments and coach houses were housed in the 19th and early 20th centuries that are still mapped to historic postcards. In World War II German soldiers used these caves as a block house.

Popular pastimes of vacationers are now beach walks on the pebbles and at low tide on the mussel beds below the Falaises, fishing, boating, and also walking along the cliffs and trips to the nearby tourist towns of Normandy, for example, Etretat and Honfleur.

Retail stores are selling beach items and local produce (eg Calvados, cider, juice and jam Norman apples ).

Festivals

• Torchlight procession on 13 July, on the eve of the French National Day
• Fête de la mer on August 15: Mass and blessing procession with votive paintings, exhibitions of paintings and sculptures in the streets and on the beach