It is an extraordinary story... it is the story of an abbot, Abbé Fouré, who chose sculpture as a way of expressing raw art. But not just any sculpture... it's about 300 monumental characters, sculpted directly into the granite of the cliff! Nothing less!
It has been said that this ensemble represented the legend of the Rothéneuf, more or less privateers, a little pirates, until the French revolution. In fact, they are rather known characters, related to the events of his time, such as the Transvaal war, with its famous figures such as President Krüger, where Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil, colonization seems to have concerned him a lot. There are also famous Breton saints, such as Saint Budoc, or the great figure of Rothéneuf, Jacques Cartier.
In any case, it leaves an immense testimony of raw art, and discovering this set of statues in the granitic rocks overlooking the sea leaves the indelible memory of a grandiose work.
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