Musée Historique
Wax-figure museum of the abbey's prison years, with recreated cells, torture tools and an old periscope.
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This audio guide to the Musée Historique on Mont-Saint-Michel follows the decades when the abbey was a prison nicknamed the Bastille of the Seas, and the inmates put to work in its old monastery halls. It turns on one October night in eighteen thirty-four, when the workshops inside the church caught fire with hundreds of prisoners locked in above the bay. Listen as you walk past the wax prisoners in their reconstructed cells.
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