6:00pm: A Lovely Sight
Mont-St.-Michel
From the New York Times:
"MONT-ST.-MICHEL JOURNAL:
Battle for the Future Swirls Below Proud Towers
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
MONT-ST.-MICHEL, France For over a thousand years, the monastery here has thrust skyward out of the sea, like the pointed finger of some giant piercing the earth's crust. The image favored by visitors is at high tide, when it rises islandlike from the smooth waters of the bay that shares its name.
Though dedicated to monastic peace, the place has always been the theater of
conflict: between the earth and the eroding sea, between the English and French, and between the religious and the profane as during the French Revolution, when the monks were dispersed and the monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, France's protector, was converted to a prison..."
(From The New York Times, Click for Full Article & Slide Show)