St. Michel, Mont, a remarkable islet in St. Michel Bay, SW. corner of Normandy, 18 m. W. of Avranches; is formed of a single cone of granite, 242 ft. high, crowned by a historic Benedictine monastery; on the lower slopes is built a little fortified town; a causeway 1 m. long joins it to the mainland.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
St. Michael's Mount * St. Nazaire