Nestled off the coast of Normandy is Mont-Saint-Michel, a magical site that dates back to the Middle Ages. Wrapped in a picturesque village and topped with a sky-high tower, this tidal island looks like it has been plucked from the pages of a storybook. W 1794 roku na szczycie wieży dzwonniczej została zainstalowana stacja telegrafu optycznego. Tym samym Mont Saint-Michel zostało włączone w szlak linii telegraficznej z Paryża do Brestu . W 1835 roku więzienie zostało poddane oględzinom architekta Eugène Viollet-le-Duca. The 17th-century cleric Jean Huynes compiled in 1638 a Mont Saint-Michel history as a manuscript, published in book form in 1873, that included the same precise date for the attack: The English, having seen that a fire, on the Monday of Quasimodo, by fortuitous event had reduced to ashes a good part of the village of the Mont … from this they .

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