https://uslhs.org/lighthouse-locations/france en https://uslhs.org/education/articles/la-cordouan-lighthouse <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The most beautiful lighthouse in the world.<br /> “<em>The Gulf of Gascony, from Cordouan to Biarritz, is a sea of contradictions; an enigma of a strife and struggle. As it stretches southward it suddenly acquires an extraordinary depth and becomes an abyss in which the waters are swallowed up. An ingenious naturalist has compared it to a gigantic funnel, which abruptly absorbs all that pours into it. The flood, escaping from it under an awful pressure, [mounts] to a height of which our seas afford no other example.</em>” — Jules Michelet; French historian (1798 -1874)</p> </div></div></div> <div class="field field-name-field-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/article_images/la_cordouan3.jpg" width="594" height="422" alt="" /> </div> <h3 class="field-label"> File </h3> <div class="field field-name-field-file field-type-file field-label-above"> <span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/articles_pdf/la_cordouan.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=824259">la_cordouan.pdf</a></span> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-location field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"> <a href="/lighthouse-locations/france" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">France</a> </div> Fri, 07 Nov 2014 01:30:44 +0000 rich 1831 at https://uslhs.org https://uslhs.org/education/articles/la-cordouan-lighthouse#comments