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          Did You Know?

          Alleys barely wider
           than a person’s
         shoulders lead up from
           Grande Rue to a
            tiny church.

                                             A floodlit Mont-St-Michel
                                             looking particularly
                                             atmospheric at sunset


        1789       1874                              2014
           French   Abbey                1895–7         The causeway is
        ▼
                                                      ▼
        Revolution:   declared a         Belfry, spire    demolished and a bridge
        abbey is a   national            and statue of    is built connecting the
        political prison.    monument.   St Michael added.   island to the mainland.
                            1877–9          1922
                              ▲ Causeway built   Services again
                            linking the island    held in abbey
                            to the mainland.  church.



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