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Title: La Côte d'Émeraude
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Musson, Spencer C A. & C. Black, publisher Lewis, John Hardwicke, 1841-1927, ill
Subjects: Brittany (France) -- Description and travel Normandy (France) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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iary watering place of Dinard, with two superbbeaches of sand. Between them juts the rocky head-land of Decolle ; it has been dreadfully vulgarized, butnothing can spoil the charm of the splendid cliffs andislets of granite, the gracious curves of sandy beachrecessed in the bays on either side, the headlands ofgreen down cresting grey precipices beyond. Onthe left the long curve of coast, dotted with whitehouses, stretches to Cap Frehel. On the right arethe gardens and villas of Dinard, and the dun battle-ments and white spire of St. Malo. The fishing village of St. Lunaire lies more inlandthan the modern watering place, round its ancientand now disused church. In the graveyard are shadytrees and an old granite crucifix, the cross carvedto imitate the natural trunk of a tree. The Saviouris stretched on one side, the Virgin and Child areseated against it on the other. The choir of the churchis romanesque, most of the rest is later. In the 64 ST. LUNAIRE, WITH CAP FREHEL IN THE DISTANCE
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St. Lunaire interior is the tomb of St. Lunaire, his statue, mitreon head and crozier in hand, recumbent upon it.Almost obliterated, on his breast is the figure of adove with outstretched wings and a stone in itsmouth, symbolic of the stone, still shown, to which adove directed him to fasten his boat when he dis-embarked to Christianize the country. Near this aworn sepulchral slab bears the rude efhgies of a knightand his lady, demons under their feet, angels at theirhead. In recesses in the north transept are recumbentstatues of a lord of Pontbriand and his wife, theirhands crossed on their breasts and angels supportingtheir heads. In a recess on the south is the efhgy of alady wearing coif and rosary. The past has been so largely obliterated in therecent developments of the neighbourhood thatone is glad to hear it is proposed to restore thisinteresting and neglected church ; it is to be hopedthat the restoration will not be so drastically archaeo-logical as to rob it of its air of l

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