Étaules, which comes from the Latin stabulum (stable, stable) and by extension (relais, gîte), is located in the canton of La Tremblade, in the heart of the Arvert peninsula.
The commune of Étaules was created on the heights in 1790, replacing the former parish of Notre-Dame-de-l'Isle, which had become inaccessible in the middle of the unhealthy marshes of the former Gulf of Barbareu. Set back from the coastal strip and the beaches, Étaules is a small town between 150 hectares of forest and stretches of fresh or salt marshes. In 1948, it obtained from the commune of Arvert, 100 hectares of clear land on the banks of the Seudre, to the north, as well as the oyster ports of Les Roches, Orivol and Les Brégauds. It is also an agricultural and viticultural landscape dominating the marshes. The motto of the town is Tempus omnia vincit ("time always triumphs").
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