Vias Plagé I take it you mean

We haven't been for 17 years to that area Vias/Valras the beach is rough gravelly sand and shelves very steeply from inches to feet in one step
in fact the last time we were there my eldest and I did our Bay-Watch act and rescued a couple of French kids who were way out of their depth and we were actually out of sight from the beach too tons of undertow

the town I can't remember much of as we didn't stay long just moved on using Camping Cheques so easy to change sites