What is Epte?
[[File:Claude Monet 040.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{center|A landscape by Claude Monet, Poplars on the Banks of the Epte.}} ]] The '''Epte''' is a [[river]] in [[Seine-Maritime]] and [[Eure]], in [[Normandy]], [[France]]. It is a [[tributary]] of the river [[Seine]]. It begins in Seine-Maritime [[Departments of France|department]] in the [[Pays de Bray]], near [[Forges-les-Eaux]]. The river empties into the [[Seine]] not far from [[Giverny]].<ref>Robert I C Fisher; Linda Dannenberg; et al, ''Fodor's 2012 France'' (New York: Fodor's Travel Pub, 2012), p. 292</ref> In 911, the [[Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte]] established the river as the historical boundary between Normandy and [[Île-de-France]]. This divided the traditional county of the [[Vexin]] into two parts. The Norman Vexin became a part of Normandy while the French Vexin remained a part of the Île-de-France. A series of castles were built on both banks of the Epte to guard this frontier.<ref>Peter Fraser Purton, ''A history of the early medieval siege, c.450-1200'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009), p. 254</ref> [[Claude Monet]] lived at Giverny near the river for more than forty years.<ref>Claire Joyes; Claude Monet, ''Claude Monet : life at Giverny'' (New York: Vendome Press, 1985), ''[[:en:wikt:passim|passim]]''</ref> In his garden, by diverting a branch of the Epte, he established a [[Water gardens|water garden]] with its famous [[Aquatic plant|water-lily pond]] and a Japanese-style [[Footbridge|bridge]]. The river appears in several of his [[:wikt:works|works]], including ''Peupliers au bord de l'Epte'' (Poplars on the Banks of the Epte). ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *http://www.geoportail.fr {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215171356/http://geoportail.fr/ |date=2010-12-15 }} *[http://sandre.eaufrance.fr/app/chainage/courdo/htm/H31-0400.php?cg=H31-0400 The Epte at the Sandre database] [[Category:Rivers of Normandy]] {{France-geo-stub}}