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LOCMARIAQUER

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOCMARIAQUER  , a

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village of western
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France, on the W.
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shore of the Gulf of
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Morbihan, in the
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department of Morbihan, 8z m . S. of
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Auray by road . Pop . (1906) 756 . Locmariaquer has a small
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port, and
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oyster culture is carried on
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close to it .
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Roman remains are to be seen, but the
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place owes its celebrity to the megalithic monuments in the vicinity, some of which are among the largest extant . The menhir of Men-er-H'roeck (
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Fairy
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stone), which was broken into four pieces by
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lightning in the 18th
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century, previously measured about 67 ft. in height, and from 9 to 13 ft. in thickness .

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