Freedom Tower
Rampart gun tower renamed for liberty during the Revolution, with cannon ports and views over the bay.
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This guide to the Tower of Liberty on the ramparts of Mont-Saint-Michel follows Armand Barbès, a republican revolutionary sentenced to death after a failed Paris uprising in eighteen thirty-nine and sent instead to the abbey prison above. It moves between his cell, his fellow inmate Auguste Blanqui, and the Revolution that gave this gun tower its hopeful new name and the island a new one too. Best heard standing at the foot of the tower, looking up toward the abbey.
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