France looking to raise the sea to save a treasure; $260 million project would preserve historic Mont-Saint-Michel.(Main)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | November 20, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: ANGELA DOLAND Associated Press

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France - While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the tides back up to save a national treasure.

With its Gothic abbey soaring 558 feet above a mostly flat, nondescript Normandy landscape, Mont-Saint-Michel is both a feat of human will and a quirk of nature, planted in a tidal system that each day brings the sea surging in as fast as a trotting horse to fill the bay with surf. ...

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