See Chambre des Demoiselles, Étretat, Normandy, France

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Chambre des Demoiselles is a cave on the Alabaster Coast in Normandy, France. The cave is only a narrow crevice. It is marked by two rock peaks. A footbridge leads to one of the rock peaks, from which a tunnel leads to the western tip. The name Chambre des Demoiselles means something like girls' room in German and goes back to a legend. After that, the three daughters of the merchant Jolivet, Jacinthe, Eléonore and Catherinette lived in Étretat. The girls' three fiancés were soldiers in the war. After the soon-expected return, a triple wedding was to take place. Just before he wanted to marry his lover myself, Seigneur Caux, Baron de Fréfossé urged the three girls for the service in his castle, now the Château du Tilleul. However, the sisters refused several times. Fréfossé watched the girls on an excursion to the Falaises d'Aval, whereupon they fled into the crevice and hid there for the night. When they were about to leave their hiding place the next morning, however, they found that Fréfossé had blocked access. When the inhabitants of Étretat noticed the disappearance of the three women, they began to look for them. However, the search was in vain. After three days and nights without food or water, the three sisters died in the Chambre des Demoiselles. On the day of her death, three pigeons are said to have climbed over the rock, which were interpreted as the souls of the three girls. The spirits of the sisters are said to have returned and took revenge on Fréfossé. Even today, the ghosts of the girls in white robes are said to roam the crevices at night and in fog. According to another description of the legend, when Fréfossé wanted to free them, the three sisters disappeared without a trace. On which it is suspected that they would have turned into fairies. Even today you should be able to hear her crying in the howling sea wind. In another variant, the girls manage to hide from the baron in the cave in such a way that he looks for them in vain. However, the exit is blocked by a landslide, so that they die in the Chambre des Demoiselles. The baron was filled with repentance and was constantly haunted by the ghosts of women. The French poet Guy de Maupassant based his poem Légende de la Chambre des Demoiselles à Étretat on the legend of the Chambre des Demoiselles.

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