Seen from the Pointe de Grave bridge, the star of the lighthouses and beacons of Verdon-sur-Mer, Cordouan, seems fragile and distant, like a vertical line resting on the horizon.
A line of stone.
Then he appears, planted in the Atlantic, both stocky and slender.
Splendid.
From the height of its 67.5 meters, the oldest lighthouse in France, built between 1584 and 1611 by the engineer-architect Louis de Foix on the order of Marshal de Matignon, governor of Guyenne, stands majestic and powerful, sparkling in her corset in white Saintonge stone.
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This morning, the slate-colored ocean is not very agitated, the weather is mild.
On board the boat, a handful of experts, architects of French buildings, heritage curators and craftsmen, responsible for supervising the major Cordouan restoration project with a view to its possible inclusion on the Unesco World Heritage List, are preparing to disembark.
Hurry up.
They only have a few hours to assess the progress of the work
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