When the Atlantic rattles the walls: Ouessant hopes for help from Buckingham Palace

Far out in the west of Brittany, where France slowly disappears into the Atlantic, the small island of Ouessant is fighting wind, salt and time. The inhabitants of the rocky island, off the coast of Finistère, have now sent an unusual appeal to London — more precisely to King Charles III. The British monarch is being asked to help save the historic church of Saint-Pol-Aurélien, whose walls suffer from moisture,…