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Duchesse Anne dike
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Willem VS
June 22, 2023
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The Digue de la Duchesse-Anne is a dike built on ancient coastlines that separated the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel from the marshes of Dol in northeastern Brittany. The dike extends for …
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Les Guilvinistes
June 26, 2018
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The Digue de la Duchesse-Anne (also Duchesse-Anne-Damm or Brittany dam) separates the bay of Mont Saint-Michel from the Marais of Dol de Bretagne. The dike extends about thirty kilometers from …
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David Lpx 📸
February 24, 2020
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La Digue, known as Chaussée de la Duchesse Anne, with a development of around 36 km, protects the Dol marsh from the invasion of the sea since the first works carried out, according to tradition, in the 11th or 12th centuries on coastal cords . Over fifteen thousand hectares in twenty-three municipalities are thus preserved from the invasions of the sea.
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