Cordouan Lighthouse

Phare de Cordouan
5130

The inscription commemorating the various restorations of the lighthouse that took place under Louis XV replaced another inscription that evoked, in early seventeenth-century French Mannerist verse, the seven wonders of the world, putting at the top of the list the lighthouse that was "built over the sea".

© Thomas Sagory

© Thomas Sagory

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