MONT-SAINT-MICHEL

môN-săN-mēshĕlˈ, rocky isle (1993 est. pop. 72) in the Gulf of Saint-Malo, an arm of the English Channel, Manche dept., NW France, 1 mi (1.6 km) off the coast, near Avranches. The isle, accessible by land at low tide, is also linked with the mainland by a causeway (built 1875). The celebrated Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel was founded in 708 by Saint Aubert, bishop of Avranches. A gigantic group of buildings, rising three stories high, serves, with the summit of the cone-shaped rock, as a base for the great abbey church. Six of these structures on the side facing the sea form the unit called La Merveille [the marvel], constructed from 1203 to 1228. Mont-Saint-Michel is one of the most imposing achievements of Gothic architecture. Strongly fortified, the abbey was frequently assaulted by the English in the Hundred Years War but was never captured. It remains one of the major tourist attractions of Europe. Henry Adams wrote of it with feeling in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.

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books on: Mont Saint Michel  - 2845 results

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Book by Henry Adams; Houghton Mifflin, 1913
Subjects: Cathedrale De Chartres, Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France), Middle Ages
...THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres BY HENRY ADAMS WITH AN...came first to know Mr. Henry Adamss book, Mont- Saint-Michel and Chartres , I was profoundly convinced...
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The Memoirs of Louise Michel, the Red Virgin
Book by Bullitt Lowry, Elizabeth Ellington Gunter, Louise Michel; The University of Alabama Press, 1981
Subjects: Michel, Louise--1830-1905, New Caledonia--Description And Travel, Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871--Sources, Political Prisoners--France--Biography, Revolutionaries--France--Biography
...Chaumont to Audeloncourt is long. It turns and spirals around Mont Chauve, comes down the slopes by the easiest descents possible...family lived in Audeloncourt. My maternal great-uncles--Simon, Michel, and Francis, who was called Uncle Francfort--lived there. They...
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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
Book by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, Patrick H. Hutton, Michel Foucault; University of Massachusetts Press, 1988
Subjects: Foucault, Michel--Contributions In Concept Of The Self, Self (Philosophy)
...Turner, The Book of Thomas the Contender Missoula, Mont.: Scholars press, 1975 , pp. 233- 39; and Drijvers...the way of "grace alone," based on the writings of Saint Paul, Saint Augustine, and Calvin, that proclaimed the human self...
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The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Vol. 2
Book by Homer Saint-Gaudens; The Century Co., 1913
Subjects: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus--1848-1907, Sculptors--United States--Biography
The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens Volume II Copyright by De Witt C. Ward AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS, BY KENYON COX THE REMINISCENCES OF AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS EDITED AND AMPLIFIED BY HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS VOLUME TWO PUBLISHED...
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The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Vol. 1
Book by Homer Saint-Gaudens; The Century Co., 1913
Subjects: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus--1848-1907, Sculptors--United States--Biography
...the Chamounix Valley, climbed Mont Blanc as far as the Montanvert...Garnier wrote to Mr. Louis Saint- Gaudens a long letter describing...cared. . . . Copr. Augusta H. Saint-Gaudens SKETCH PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS DRAWN BY HIMSELF This...
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journal articles on: Mont Saint Michel  - 130 results

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"Rome N'est Plus Dans Rome": Mythe Romain et Intertexte Chez Michel Butor
Journal article by Dominique Jullien; The Romanic Review, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: Butor, Michel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--20th century
...des enfants..." (269). (10.)Saint Augustin, La Cite de Dieu, en...est analysee par Jean Roudaut, Michel Butor et le livre futur, Paris...lItalie que les oracles de Lycie mont ordonne de metablir: voila mon...la-dessus Jennifer Waelti-Walters, Michel Butor (Rodopi, 1992), p.22...
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Something about Nothing: Michel Tournier's 'La Jeune Fille et la Mort.'
Journal article by W.D. Redfern; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 23, 1993
Subjects: Death--Portrayals, Positivism--Portrayals, Suicide--Portrayals, Tournier, Michel--Criticism and interpretation
...Tourniers punning, see my |Approximating Man: Michel Tournier and Play in Language, Modern...Chiendent on |le nonnate. 27. F. Bregis, |Michel Tournier nest pas un romancier (interview...London: Granada, 1965), 64. 32. C. Davis , Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction (Oxford...
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Richard F. Johnson, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend
Journal article by Kees Dekker; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Saint Michael the Archangel in Medieval English Legend (Book)--Book reviews
...venerated St Michael as the patron saint of their social, cultural and imperial ambitions (p. 44), and whose own Mont Saint-Michel became the focus of Michael worship. Part H deals with the St Michael legend in medieval English texts, including...
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L'archange et L'aigle: Tournier Face a Hugo Dans le Medianoche Amoureux
Journal article by Marie-Sophie Armstrong; French Forum, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Hugo, Victor, Tournier, Michel--Criticism and interpretation
...contexte de notre lecture, que le Mont-Saint-Michel, joyau architectural de la baie...soleil du solstice embrasait le Mont-Saint-Michel quand le dernier invite se leva...Cest que lillumination du Mont-Saint-Michel ne revele rien moins en effet...
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Realite et Imaginaire Des Parcs et Des Jardins Dans la Deuxieme Moitie Du XIX Siecle
Journal article by Jose Santos; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2003
Subjects: Foucault, Michel--Criticism and interpretation, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Gardens--Portrayals, Literary themes--Criticism and interpretation, Zola, Emile--Criticism and interpretation
...malgre lilot bourgeois de Saint-Mande) recut des autorites...these que soutient Louis-Michel Noury dans son ouvrage...que le "Calvus Montus," Mont Chauve en latin, devenu...lieu familier, le parc de Saint-Cloud. Apres avoir laisse...199-211. Carmona, Michel. Haussmann. Paris: Fayard...
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magazine articles on: Mont Saint Michel  - 25 results

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Mont Saint Michel: France's 'Marvelous Pyramid'
Magazine article by Nancy Parode; World and I, Vol. 22, April 2007
Subjects: Abbeys--Appreciation, Abbeys--History, Abbeys--Protection and preservation, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--Appreciation, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--History, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey--Protection and preservation
Mont Saint Michel: Frances Marvelous Pyramid. by Nancy Parode "Mont-Saint-Michel comes into view like a sublime thing...fascinated visitors for centuries. Mont Saint Michel sits on a remote, rocky island just...
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Joan of Arc -- the Messenger
Magazine article by Ronald F. Maxwell; History Today, Vol. 50, April 2000
Subjects: Besson, Luc--Works, Historical films--Production and direction, Joan of Arc, Saint--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Motion pictures--Production and direction
...no mention of St Michael, the male saint who she claimed to have seen and...the shrine of St Michael himself at Mont St Michel? The difference between the story...physical context? Bertold Brecht, in `Saint Joan of the Stockyards, transposes...
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The Real Education of Henry Adams
Magazine article by Richard A. Samuelson; Public Interest, Spring 2002
Subjects: Adams, Henry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Democracy--Analysis, Republicanism--Analysis, United States history--19th century, United States--Politics and government
...literature, but mainly for aesthetic reasons, and his Mont Saint Michel and Chartres as an amusing intellectual journey through...books upon which his popular image is based. In his Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, Adams portrayed himself as a literary...
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True Devotion to Mary
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2007
Subjects: Adams, Henry (American historian)--Criticism and interpretation, Adams, Henry (American historian)--Works, Historians--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works, John Paul II, Pope--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Marian devotion--Analysis, Marian devotion--History, Marian devotion--Study and teaching, Popes--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religious education--Social aspects
...Neuhaus In his classic work Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams asserts...honoring of all the saints, of one saint, or...of Saint Mary serves to keep our feet on...
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Our Mongrel Planet
Magazine article by Drake Bennett; The American Prospect, Vol. 15, February 2004
Subjects: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: HOW GLOBALIZATION IS CHANGING THE WORLD'S CULTURES (Book)
...PAGES * $27.95 IN A SHORT STORY BY THE LATE WILLIAM Maxwell, an American named John Reynolds takes his family to Le Mont-Saint-Michel 18 years after his magical first visit. Their hotel is bland, the food mediocre and they are swept along in thick...
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newspaper articles on: Mont Saint Michel  - 13 results

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Marooned on Mont St Michel; Simon Heptinstall Stays on France's Most Famous Island And,in His Pyjamas,watches from the Ramparts as the Tide Comes In
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 19, 2006
...www.projetmontsaintmichel.fr Office du Tourisme du Mont Saint Michel, 00 33 233 60 14 30 www.ot-montsaintmichel.com Simon...at Auberge Saint Pierre, Intra-muros, Grande Rue, Mont Saint Michel Tel: 00 33 233 60 14 03 www.auberge-saint-pierre.fr...
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Tuesday
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 18, 2009
Subjects: Television programs
...with a first - the team are on the other side of the Channel, exploring the French coastline, from Cap Gris Nez to Mont-Saint-Michel, and uncovering some surprising links with England. NEW SERIES Send In The Dogs 8pm, ITV1 ** A new run of the documentary...
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Holiday Special: Packed! GREAT BRITTANY; Beautiful French Coast Is like Home from Home
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), January 7, 2001
Subjects: Brittany
...Beauvoi - close to the 1,200-year-old coastal abbey of Mont Saint Michel in Normandy. A weeks holiday in May is from pounds...toffee-rippled cake. PLACES 1. BEAUTIFUL abbey at Mont Saint Michel. 2. STUNNING Belle Ile off Brittany coast. 3...
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Justin Perfect Rest Cure in Our Brittany Gite
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 9, 2007
...We never made it to Brittanys most famous landmark, Mont Saint Michel. Hit by a traffic jam, we were lured instead to Cherrueix...Gettingthere Brittany Ferries offers a week at a gite in Saint Meloir des Ondes from pounds sterling477for a family...
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Flaubert, Not Surprisingly, Stars Again
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2002
Subjects: Barnes, Julian, Flaubert, Gustave
...the lofty mass and soaring spire of Mont-Saint-Michel in the background. It was the first...writers writer par excellence, the saint and martyr of literature, the perfector...collapse and death on the fearsome Mont Ventoux, highest of the Provencal...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mont Saint Michel  - 9 results

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Mont-Saint-Michel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MONT-SAINT-MICHEL moN-saN-meshel , rocky isle (1993...silting of the surrounding waters caused Mont-Saint-Michel to be truly an island only at extreme...The celebrated Benedictine abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel was founded in 708 by Saint Aubert...
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Saint Michel, Mont
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAINT MICHEL, MONT see Mont-Saint-Michel . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Avranches
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy, on the English Channel. Because of its proximity to the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel , Avranches has a large tourist trade. A Roman town, it became an intellectual center in the early Middle Ages; Lanfranc...
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Manche
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...extends S into the Norman woods. Saint-Lo (the capital), Cherbourg , and Avranches are the chief towns, and Mont-Saint-Michel is off the coast. Manche is largely agricultural, with extensive animal breeding and raising. Although industry...
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Normandy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...beach resorts, notably Deauville, Granville, and Etretat. It is known too for its many old fairs and festivals. Mont-Saint-Michel lies off the coast where Normandy and Brittany meet. Part of ancient Gaul , the region was conquered by Julius...
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