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Surfing arrived on the French coast in 1956, in Biarritz. During the filming of the Hollywood movie The Sun Also Rises, adapted from a novel by Hemingway, producer Dick Zanuck had a surfboard sent over from the United States. It was his screenwriter Peter Viertel, a novice surfer, who tried his hand at the "sport of Hawaiian kings ." The seed was sown! The American brought three Frenchmen with him: George Hennebutte, Jacky Rott and Joël de Rosnay. The Basque Coast is the birthplace of surfing in France. In 1959, the first clubs such as the Waïkiki Surf Club appeared and the local youth took up the sport.