Mount Saint Michael - French Island and Castle


	Mount Saint Michael - French Island and Castle
hitchhiker08
6-2-2008 1:45 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e465ce22-5f3c-41e5-8ecd-95432aa280a6/F3114FAF-B463-48B7-B3E1-267D7A46401B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/" href="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/" style="font-size: 11px;">thecontaminated.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/"><H1><A rel="bookmark" href="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/" title="Permanent Link to Mount Saint Michael - French Island and Castle">Mount Saint Michael - French Island and Castle</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thecontaminated.com/img/E7678DED-D846-4A73-B43F-A08A2937A0AF" alt="mont saint michel 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/"><STRONG>Mont Saint-Michel</STRONG> (English: <EM>Mount Saint Michael</EM>) is a rocky tidal island in Normandy, France. 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/">used in the sixth and seventh centuries as an Armorican stronghold of Romano-Breton culture and power, until it was ransacked by the Franks, thus ending the trans-channel culture that had stood since the departure of the Romans in AD 460</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thecontaminated.com/mount-saint-michael-french-island-and-castle/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thecontaminated.com/img/092B974F-A042-4284-BA92-D4960E71237C" alt="mont saint michel 4" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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