Finistère: he only spent two months on the lighthouse Tévennec – TF1

“Hello, this is Marc Pointud I leave Tévennec,” he announced via VHF at Semaphore Raz, moments after leaving the island on a zodiac, not without difficulty, however, due to a heavy swell. “It was a great experience!” Says his arrival in Audierne president of the National Society for Heritage Key and tags (SnPb), after having spent 69 days at the thank you of elements.
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“the whole world knows Tévennec now,” he added, while the adventure of this man of 64 years was widely reported in media. “It’s an amazing place. It’s hard to go there and back. But once you are there, the sea paradise,” he says again without departing from a broad smile. Lit in 1875 to mark the approaches to the Raz de Sein, an area of ​​strong currents dotted with flower water to islands where many sailors were killed, the Tévennec lighthouse stands 17 meters above the level of the sea.
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the building, a house of fifty square meters, surrounded by a terrace and with a bread oven, was more inhabited since 1910 when it was automated. This is the only home-built lighthouse in the sea in France. A place that haunted the legend says.
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“I did not see anyone. No ghosts, but I heard three to four nights running noises”, tells Marc Pointud very seriously before to ensure that these noises necessarily an explanation . Twenty-three guards have succeeded on Tévennec in 35 years. Many have resigned, some have died and others became fools. Five couples have resided alternately from 1897. One of them, the Quéméré, lived five years, from 1900 to 1905, with a dairy cow.
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“winters were scary and it’s time again that we had to hoist the black flag to demand aid for boats in distress. the winter of 1903 was particularly terrible (…). All around us it was just a bubbling blades and foam “, testified the wife. “The waves passed over the house, there was water on the terrace and noises and explosions everywhere,” recalls Marc Pointud about the storm lived on the island on Easter night before continue on the wrong inventory. “Everything is in poor condition, but the big problem is the leaking roof,” he explains, saying he had been contacted by potential patrons. “The water passes in the walls, which are full of water.
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There moisture all the time. So the beams have begun to rot the floors are rotting slowly. the building goes if we do nothing, “he warns. To take two months, Marc Pointud had brought food, drinking water and even a solar panel for electricity. “I admire what he has done to raise awareness of the fact that it must maintain the headlights, even if they are not guarded,” testified Plouhinec Michel, 60, a former lighthouse keeper, notably Ar-Men, west of the island of Sein. An occupancy agreement lighthouse Tévennec was signed in 2011 for a duréede 10 years between the state and the SnPb. Once restored, Marc Pointud dream to install there an artists house.