Veules-les-Roses

France's shortest river, the Veules, runs barely a kilometre through this Channel resort, feeding watercress beds and old mills before slipping through a gap in the chalk cliffs to a sand and pebble beach. From 1840 actors, painters and writers followed the actress Mademoiselle Anaïs here, and Victor Hugo came to stay with his friend Paul Meurice.

Highlights

• Watercress beds and three restored watermills along the Veules
• The 13th-century church of Saint-Martin
• The wreck of the Cérons, sunk in 1940, visible at low tide
• The monument to Victor Hugo
• Chalk cliffs of the Côte d'Albâtre above the beach

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.