Porte et logis du Roi
Fortified medieval gateway with drawbridge and iron portcullis, topped by the royal officer's lodging.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the King's Gate and King's Lodging in Mont-Saint-Michel follows everyone who once came in off the tidal sands of the bay, and the stone-and-iron choke point built to receive them in the early fifteenth century. It turns on an abbot who was also a military captain, and on the royal officer who lived directly over the entrance he guarded. Best heard standing on the drawbridge, looking up into the arch.
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