site: review — Drops of Rain (graduates from find)

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 Deferred cluster still waiting (unchanged, third consecutive run): "One index of everything" — `detourmap`, `diena-timeline-of-everything`, `ex-situ-displaced-artifacts-map`, all still at zero heroes because each is a live map/timeline canvas whose og:image is a text title card. `grace-cathedral-gaussian-splat` has the same problem and the same deferral (see 07-21 reviews entry).

 Uncovered finds (eligible pool, no honest theme this run): drops-of-rain-etretat, bandai-head-office-tokyo, liebesweg-poppenhausen, quote-the-people-have-spoken, chalk-macos-sketch-app, orate-mac-text-to-speech, imagin-raw-photo-browser, osaurus, morse-code-bracelet, transformers-mysterious-prime, transparent-window-bird-feeder, powerhouz-starship-home-dashboard, detourmap, diena-timeline-of-everything, grace-cathedral-gaussian-splat. Not padded into a cluster on purpose.
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+## 2026-07-22 — review: drops-of-rain-etretat
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+**drops-of-rain-etretat** — graduated from the find captured 2026-07-22, source: Atlas Obscura.
+Hero: the find's `hero.jpg` copied across — Anthony Levrot, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia "Étretat - 76790 - 2024.07.04 - Les Jardins d'Étretat (sculpture « Gouttes de Pluie ») © Anthony Levrot.jpg", downscaled to 2000px. The Commons filename itself names the sculpture, so the subject is independently identified rather than inferred.
+Category: places (existing).
+Link upgraded from the Atlas Obscura entry to the garden's own site (etretatgarden.fr); `source` stays Atlas Obscura.
+Fact-check (subagent, primary sources): **find substantially confirmed, one claim corrected in both the review and the find, and two gaps left open rather than filled.**
+- Confirmed from the garden's own copy: the work is *Gouttes de pluie* (Raindrops), 2016, by Samuel Salcedo, in **polyester resin loaded with aluminium powder** — none of which the find had. It sits in the **Jardin Émotions**, one of seven named sections (Avatar, Émotions, Impressions, d'Aval, Zen, La Manche, d'Amont). Salcedo: born Barcelona 1975, trained in Barcelona and Manchester, formed partly in Jaume Plensa's studio. Garden history confirmed: Madame Thébault's 1905 villa, site found derelict by Alexandre Grivko (Il Nature) in 2015, reopened 2017. Practical facts verified live: daily 10:00–18:30 through summer, €14 adult peak, Avenue Damilaville, 76790 Étretat.
+- **Correction made in the find as well as the review.** The find said the planting was "a nod to the oyster farm Marie Antoinette kept on this stretch of Normandy coast." That is wrong twice over. The oyster park is real — rock-cut basins below the cliffs, dug 1783–84 by a man styling himself the Baron de Bellevert, supplying Paris and Versailles — but Marie Antoinette's personal connection is regional tradition, hedged even by local histories with *paraît-il*. The garden's own site did assert the Marie Antoinette framing for years (2019–2024 captures), and that page has since vanished from the redesigned site. The find body was rewritten to say the section echoes the oyster park below the cliffs, with no royal claim; the review states the real 1783–84 history and flags the royal line explicitly as tradition rather than record.
+- **Deliberately not asserted:** the head count (aggregators consistently say seven; neither the garden nor the artist publishes a figure) and the dimensions (published nowhere). The review says so out loud and ends on it rather than quietly picking a number.
+~436-word body. Amazon: n/a (a place).