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Historical Images of Guernsey
Part 3: Jean Louis Armand
de Quatrefages de Bréau
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Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau was a noted French naturalist, and visited the Channel Islands in the late 1850s. His book Rambles Among the Channel Islands by a Naturalist was published in 1860 and included the following illustrations of Guernsey:
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St. Peter Port
from St. James-the-Less
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Castle Cornet
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Elizabeth College
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St. Peter Port:
Construction of the ‘new’ harbour
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St. Sampson's Harbour
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Vale Castle
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Fort Grey, the Chateau de Rocquaine
"or, as islanders call it, the ‘Cup and Saucer’".
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Stacks of Seaweed (Vraic) at Alexanders Hotel
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Castel Church – Ste. Marie de Castro
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Lihou – remains of the Priory of St. Mary
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‘Druidical Remains’ – (possibly La Varde)
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Fermain Bay
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Pleinmont
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