Gaston François was born in Le Havre 16th January 1860 to Lzon François and Léontine Dubos.

He married Clémence Quesnel in 1880 from whom he was widowed after 1901. He had two children : Felix born in 1881 and Garance born in 1883.

His friends
Jules Verne, Pierre Curie, Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo et Alphonse Allais.
Camille frequented the families Braque and Dufy at Le Havre. A painter when the fancy took her, she followed with great attention the artistic movements including Georges Braque and Raoul Dufy (cubism and fauvism). During a meal, she made the acquaintance of Gaston and Clémence François with whom she became friendly. Clémence disappeared and Gaston was disoriented. She helped him entrust his cabinet to his son and welcomed him to Etretat to the Villa Saint Clair.

The grand terrace of the room gives onto the dungeon and onto the patio. The Doctor’s room gives directly onto the parking or into the villa. The bathroom is equipped with a Balneotherapy bathroom and the bedroom with atmospheric music.

Guy de Maupassant was born at the castle of Miromesnil 5th August 1850 toGustave de Maupassant and Laure Le Poittevin. He was said to have had three children to Joséphine Litzelmann, a water seller, during his cures at Châtelguyon between 1883 and 1887. He never recognised them but would have participated financially towards their education : Lucien, Lucienne and Marguerite.

His lovelife
Gisèle d’Estoc, Marie Kann, the countess Potocka, Hermine Lecomte du Nouy… Camille’s aunt, Elisabeth de Clères Noyset, was friends with Laure de Maupassant. Camille struck up a friendship with Laure and saw Guy and his brother Hervé grow up. She went on holiday to their house at Etretat with her son Albert. The war of 1870 broke out and Camille exiled herself to London for many years. In 1883 she returned on the invitation of Claude Monet.
The day of her arrival at Le Havre she discovered beside Monet, a Guy de Maupassant now become a man, he was 33 years old. Guy and Camille became inseparable. In 1889 whilst illness was racking him she decided to buy the Villa Saint Clair to be nearer to him.

A full view of the village, the sea and the cliffs of Etretat. It was a different show every evening, winter and summer alike. The lucky thing was to see the “Green Flash”.