I shall be commenting more on Les Rochers sculptés de Rothéneuf in a future post on a booklet about L'Abbé Fouré (1839-1910), the 'Hermit of Rothéneuf' (born Adolphe Julien Fouéré), but enough now to say that for thirteen years this man sculpted, sometimes in the night, over a surface of 500 square metres, 300 figures out of granite on the rocks just within the commune of Saint-Malo. L'Abbé Fouré was a precursor of Art Brut, self-taught, with no pretensions to being an artist. After thirty years as vicaire and recteur in communes in Brittany, he was forced to retire in 1894 due to being 'hard of hearing'. At Rothéneuf, five miles from the town of Saint-Malo, he undertook his self-imposed task. Below is a part of the really remarkable efforts he made, now sadly being gradually eroded by the sea, and paradoxically by those fascinated by his work, as they walk over the bodies and the faces created by L'Abbé Fouré. He is buried in the cemetery a little to the south of the village.
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