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The Mont Saint Michel

Il surgit des sables de sa vaste baie, telle une montagne sacrée tendue vers le ciel... Sanctuaire, lieu de pèlerinage, point de ralliement des touristes, le Mont-Saint-Michel subjugue et envoûte depuis la nuit des temps. Au 6e siècle, un ermite s’y installe. Suivront les moines bénédictins de l’abbaye, les commerçants du vieux village, les bâtisseurs de la Merveille... jusqu’aux les visiteurs d’aujourd’hui. A l’heure où un barrage flambant neuf s’apprête à lui redonner son caractère insulaire, balade sur et autour du "Mont". Une flânerie en kayak du côté de Tombelaine, une pêche aux crevettes à l’aube, les laudes en compagnie des moines et moniales de l’abbaye, une traversée de la baie en n’évitant surtout pas les sables mouvants... Quoi d’autre? Les batteurs d’omelette de la Mère Poulard. Les prés salés qui broutent la salicorne des prairies inondées. Les polders, aux digues rectilignes, qui ceinturent le sud de la baie. Et l’archange Saint-Michel, bien sûr, tout enveloppé d’or, qui toise la baie du haut de sa flèche...Vincent Noyoux
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, and the Couesnon River

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Abbey Church, monk ringing the bell for the Lauds

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel at low tide (aerial view)

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06/11/2012
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO (aerial view)

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07/12/2005
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, salt marshes sheeps

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19/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Abbey Church, brothers and sisters of the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem, the Lauds in the chapel of Trentes Cierges

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Beach fisherman Guy Jugan lifting his nets full of Crangon crangon (grey shrimp) shrimps at dawn

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Apse and the bay seen from the spire at dawn

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, crossing on foot the Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

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10/09/2007
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    • France, Ille et Vilaine, salt marshes of the Mont Saint Michel, Yannick Frain, farmer/breeder of salt marshes sheep

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Beach fisherman Guy Jugan lifting his nets full of Crangon crangon (grey shrimp) shrimps at dawn

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, stairs leading to the Grande Rue from the ramparts of the Abbey

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Ille et Vilaine, flock of salt marshes sheeps of the Mont Saint Michel

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, buildings of the Wonder (La Merveille), the cloister

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, tide going up in the salt marshes of the Mont Saint Michel at dawn

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, sister of Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem welcoming the believers of the vespers at la Porterie or salle des Gardes (Guards' room)

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mr Antoine Bacchiarotti looking at the Apse and the bay from the spire at dawn

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, crossing the Bay of Mont Saint Michel in kayak and seagulls flying

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, brother François Marie, head of the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Abbey, spire and gargoyles

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel and Tombelaine Island at low tide (aerial view)

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06/11/2012
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel at low tide (aerial view)

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06/11/2012
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel at sunset

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07/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, crossing on foot the Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

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10/09/2007
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Grande Rue (Main street) from the parapet walls

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, miniatures created by brother Sebastien, monk of Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Beach fisherman Guy Jugan lifting his nets full of Crangon crangon (grey shrimp) shrimps at dawn

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO (aerial view)

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07/12/2005
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, strand fisherman Guy Jugan on his way to lift his nets full of Crangon crangon shrimps (grey shrimp)

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, the gargoyles of the church

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel; salt meadows and sea arm at low tide in the foreground (aerial view)

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06/11/2012
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    • France, Manche, walking discovery of the Bay of Mont Saint Michel, the guide Romain Pilon deep in the sand

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09/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Beach fisherman Guy Jugan lifting his nets full of Crangon crangon (grey shrimp) shrimps at dawn

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, nave of the Abbey Church

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, stairs of the Abbey church and the lodgings the left

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, buildings of the Wonder (La Merveille), the cloister

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, square dipping nets fishing

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09/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel

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10/09/2007
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, lunch in the current refectory of the monks of Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem in the abbey lodgings

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, the jails going towards the north south stairs

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont-Saint-Michel abbey, dam on the Couesnon (aerial view)

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18/04/2011
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, East side at high tide, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, crossing the Bay of Mont Saint Michel in kayak

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, the Chatelet, fortified entrance of the abbey

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08/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Saint Aubert Chapel and Gabriel tower under the Abbey on the West coast

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07/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, the restaurant called La Mere Poulard, preparation of the famous omelette

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, restaurant called la Mere Poulard, cooking of the famous omelette

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07/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, crossing the Bay of Mont Saint Michel in kayak

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08/09/2009
    • BRI_09_MSM_0236.jpg
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, lunch in the current refectory of the monks of Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem in the abbey lodgings

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont-Saint-Michel (aerial view)

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14/12/2005
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    • France, Manche, the Bay of Mont Saint Michel and the Mount seen from Groin du Sud

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09/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, stairs leading to the Abbey next to the post office

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, old harbour of Genets, the Coquetieres, a local name of women who pick up cockles, Renee Neveu and Marie Gesmier

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10/09/2009
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    • France, Ille et Vilaine, Bay of Mont Saint Michel abbey, the fields and polders of the mount on the Brittany side (aerial view)

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18/04/2011
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, crypte des Gros Piliers (crypt of large pillars)

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, intertidal zone of Couesnon River at sunset

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07/09/2009
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, and the access sea wall along the Cousenon

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10/09/2009
    • BRI_09_MSM_0187.jpg
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    • France, Manche, Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Apse and the bay seen from the spire at dawn

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Mont Saint Michel at low tide, the Sée and Selune river in the foreground (aerial view)

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06/11/2012
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    • France, Manche, the abbey of Mont Saint Michel, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, breakfast in the current refectory of the monks of Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem in the lodgings

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18/11/2009
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    • France, Manche, Bay of Mont Saint Michel, strand fisherman Guy Jugan on his way to lift his nets full of Crangon crangon shrimps (grey shrimp)

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10/09/2009