Barrage du Mont-Saint-Michel
Tidal river dam whose eight giant gates flush silt seaward, with a promenade facing the abbey island.
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This guide to the Barrage du Mont-Saint-Michel, the dam on the Couesnon river facing Mont-Saint-Michel, starts with the bronze lettering under your hand and the medieval monks it honours. It then turns to the engineers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to the slow creep of silt that threatened to leave the Mont stranded on dry land. Best heard on the promenade, looking down at the gates.
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