Tour Gabriel
Round sixteenth-century cannon tower, later topped by a windmill and a tiny lighthouse.
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This guide to the Tour Gabriel on Mont-Saint-Michel follows a round artillery tower from fifteen twenty-four, when Gabriel du Puy, lieutenant to King Francis the First, set out to cover the western cliffs and the Couesnon river with guns. It reaches forward to the monks and their abbot in the sixteen-hundreds, and to a nineteenth-century architect with his own plans for the roof. Best heard from the path below, looking up at the little turret.
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