20 September 2019

Windmill, Saint-Germain-des-Vaux, Manche (50)

The old windmill at Saint-Germain-des-Vaux has undergone something of a facelift. You can climb two steep sets of steps to the top and see the northernmost tip of La Hague from it, the rocky plateau of Les Herbeuses, and the bay of Saint-Martin.

Jean-Baptiste Digard de Lousta (1813-79) was a regional writer born in Saint-Germain. He was a librarian in Cherbourg (where he died) and the director of the Société nationale académique de Cherbourg.

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