The Traveler: Rachel Dickinsen of Roseville. The scene: Mont-Saint-Michel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, seems to float above water off the coast of Normandy on the northern coast of France. The ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through little puddles, I head for a dramatic ...

The island abbey of Mont St-Michel, one of the top pilgrimage sites of Christendom through the ages, floats like a mirage on the horizon, just off the Norman coast of France. For more than a thousand ...

Mont Saint-Michel on France's Normandy coastline forms one of the country's most recognisable and beautiful images - a walled Benedictine abbey and surrounding buildings literally rising from the sea ...

correctionAn earlier version of this story had an image of a fort near Saint-Malo rather than the city of Saint-Malo. This version has been corrected. Mont Saint-Michel draws more than 3 million ...

It’s inspiring to see how an entire nation of people will rally to protect something that’s precious to them. In the face of potential destruction, thousands in France stood up to save their beloved ...

On the wide expanse of France's northern coast, a vast gothic and Romanesque basilica rises above a rocky island, its dark steeple piercing the summer sky. In the foreground, sheep graze stubbornly on ...

LE MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France - U.S. and allied servicemembers, World War II veterans, local dignitaries and others honored the memory of those who fought in the D-Day invasion at a ceremony at the ...

With the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy just over the horizon, a group of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers commemorated the valor of their uniformed predecessors with a uniquely ...