Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
Fortified Benedictine abbey crowning a tidal granite island, with Gothic halls and sweeping bay views.
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This guide to Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in Mont-Saint-Michel opens on a June day in fourteen thirty-four, late in the Hundred Years' War, with English guns firing at the walls of the Mont. You'll meet Louis d'Estouteville, the rock's captain, and Thomas Scales, the English baron camped on the sand below. Along the way it turns to the bay's tides and why pilgrims feared them. Best heard from a parapet looking down over the bay.
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