In Modern Culture
- Mont-Saint-Michel is featured in the 1950 Powell and Pressburger film The Elusive Pimpernel.
- The 1985 IMAX film Chronos has several scenes of Mont-Saint-Michel and the surrounding tides advancing and retreating around it.
- The 1991 film Mindwalk is set on Mont-Saint-Michel.
- In 1904, the American intellectual Henry Adams privately published Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, celebrating the unity of medieval society, especially as represented in the great cathedrals of France. It was released publicly in 1913.
- French composer Claude Debussy frequented the island and possibly drew inspiration from not only the legend of the mythical city of Ys, but also Mont-Saint-Michel's cathedral for his piano prelude La Cathedrale Engloutie.
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