The history of Mont Saint Michel is a captivating tale of transformation ... September - October School Holidays: 7:30am to midnight November - February (excl school holidays): 8:30am to 10pm ...

A monk surrounded by tourists rings the bell for Mass in the abbey at Mont-Saint-Michel. Maciek Nabrdalik Tourists pose in the abbey courtyard. Maciek Nabrdalik A chapel perched precariously ...

At the Lycee Emile Zola, he hears how the school was used as a military court ... Climbing the steps of Mont-Saint-Michel, Michael reflects on the layers of history evident in the abbey’s ...

It was the year 708, and, as recorded later in the 9th century text “La Revelation,” St. Michael had ordered the bishop to build a chapel on Mont Tombe, a rocky island at the mouth of the Couesnon ...