Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche) - l'Abbaye - la Crypte des Gros Piliers Prior to 1931

            The Postcard

A carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein Réunis of 44 Rue Letelier, Paris.

The card was posted in Dinard on Thursday the 18th. June 1931 to:

Miss Morle,
51 Milton Road,
Hanwell,
London W.7,
Angleterre.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"June 17th.
Hearty congratulations!
I was very pleased to
hear the good news.
Here I am in the midst
of a very chilly holiday
in Brittany - too chilly
for sketching, and 
gaspingly cold for 
bathing.
Marjorie".

Le Mont Saint-Michel

Le Mont-Saint-Michel is an island commune in Normandy, France. It is located about 600 metres off the country's northwestern coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches, and is 100 hectares (247 acres) in area. 

The island has held strategic fortifications since ancient times, and since the 8th. century AD has been the seat of the monastery from which it draws its name. 

The structural composition of the town exemplifies the feudal society that constructed it: on top, God, the abbey and monastery; below, the great halls; then stores and housing; and at the bottom, outside the walls, houses for fishermen and farmers.

The commune's position made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey, but defensible as the fast incoming tide stranded, drove off, or drowned would-be assailants. 

The Mont remained unconquered during the Hundred Years' War; a small garrison fended off a full attack by the English in 1433. 

The reverse benefits of its natural defence were not lost on Louis XI, who turned the Mont into a prison. Thereafter the abbey began to be used more regularly as a jail during the Ancien Régime.

One of France's most recognisable landmarks, visited by more than 3 million people each year, Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay are on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Over 60 buildings within the commune are protected in France as Monuments Historiques.

The Great Wheel of Mont St.-Michel

The giant tread-wheel in the Abbey was the most precious and useful tool that was available with the technology of the time. The inhabitants used it to haul boulders, food supplies and other essential items from the landing below. It was used until as recently as the end of the 19th. century.

A 2.6-million Volt X-Ray Tube

So what else happened on the day that Marjorie posted the card?

Well, on the 18th. June 1931, two German professors at the University of Berlin published a paper announcing the invention of a 2.6-million volt X-ray tube, double the power of anything else in the world.
   

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