Les Petites Dalles Côte d’Albâtre Normandy France When you see the steep white chalk cliffs battered by the Channel, you probably think of England’s White Cliffs of Dover. But the French have their own lesser-known version on the other side of the Channel – La Côte d’Albâtre, or the Alabaster Coast. This 80-mile-long stretch of coastline runs between Étretat and Dieppe in Normandy. It shares the same geology as the coast around Dover, and the sea has carved the same sheer cliffs and rock arches and stacks from it. Not that they will be there too long – the soft chalk rock is eroding back a couple of metres each year.