Before 6 June 1944 the peaceful stretch of coast west of Cabourg, from Ouistreham to the Cotentin peninsula, was known simply as the Cete du Calvados, a flat, undramatic shoreline broken by a few unspectacular chalk cliffs and sand dunes.
The stretch of coast from Ouistreham to the Cotentin peninsula was called the Cete du Calvados prior to 1944.
Cete du Calvados has never been the name of a shoreline.