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Before the 1950s, the shore here was walked two meters lower. The family of Lord François de Chavigny and Eleonore de Grandmaison probably landed here in the spring of 1648 and settled on the nearby height, now the Gourdeau mansion. Until the construction of a wharf in 1855 south of the point, flat-bottomed boats used the lower tide to settle on the rocky bottom, and their cargo was then transshipped in dumpers to supply the inhabitants of the island.
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