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I walked down past the Lycée Henri Quatre and the ancient church of St.-Étienne-du-Mont and the windswept Place du Panthéon and cut in for shelter to the right and finally came out on the lee side of the Boulevard St.-Michel and worked on down it past the Cluny and the Boulevard St.-Germain until I came to a good café that I knew on the Place St.-Michel.
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Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition)
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The dramatic tides of the Atlantic coast and English Channel—up to 4.5 meters at Quiberon and 16 meters at Mont St. Michel, compared with maximums of less than 1 meter in the Mediterranean—always impressed Mediterranean sailors, and Pytheas apparently discussed them at length.
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Lincoln Paine (The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World)
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My last glimpse was of Mont St. Michel, floating far off like a great bubble amidst white sails upon such a green sea… It is the past, always the old, old past, that is so delightful.
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Effie Bowne (A Summer in France: Letters (Classic Reprint))