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Mont-Saint-Michel is a World Wonder in Civilization VI. [36] Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in Onimusha 3: Demon Siege in which the abbey is overrun by demons in both the 16th and 21st centuries and subsequently destroyed. A fictionalized version of the island, Beaumont-Saint-Denis, serves as the location for Sniper Elite 5's third mission. [37]
La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion. OCLC 763372623. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 398. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France (in ...
The Magdalen Islands [1] (French: Îles de la Madeleine, pronounced [il də la madlɛn]) are an archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.Since 2005, the 12-island archipelago is divided into two municipalities: the majority-francophone Municipality of Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the majority-anglophone Municipality of Grosse-Île, in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Quebec, Canada.
Île-aux-Marins was settled in 1604 and once had a population approaching 700. [1]It was a commune until 1945, when it was annexed by the commune of Saint-Pierre.. Since the 1960s, the town has become a ghost town after the last of the population left for Saint Pierre Island; however, a small number of people live there on a seasonal basis between May and November.
Saint-Michel–Notre-Dame (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ miʃɛl nɔtʁə dam]) is a station on line B and line C of the Réseau Express Régional (RER) in Paris. Located in the 5th arrondissement , the station is named after the nearby Saint-Michel area and Notre-Dame Cathedral .
Île de Ré (French pronunciation: [il də ʁe]; variously spelled Rhé or Rhéa; Poitevin: ile de Rét; English: Isle of Ré, / r eɪ / RAY) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. Its highest point has an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet).
The castle belonged to the noble family of Saint-Michel. A Lord Guillaume of Saint-Michel was mentioned in approximately 1104. [9] [10] He formed an alliance with the family of Ismidon de La Chambre. [10] In fact, the son of Guillaume of Saint-Michel carried the name Ismidon I of Saint-Michel, [10] in around 1151.
Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe (St. Michael of the Needle) is a chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France. The chapel is reached by 268 steps carved into the rock. It was built in 969 on a volcanic plug 85 metres (279 ft) high. [1] The surface on top of the plug is 57 metres (187 ft) in diameter. [2]