Alignement de Sainte-Barbe

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The alignment of Sainte-Barbe is a megalithic alignment located in the French commune of Plouharnel in the French department of Morbihan, not far from the large megalithic site of Carnac.

History: In 1879 Henri Martin demanded the acquisition of the site by the State. In 1883, the state purchased only the "menhirs de tête" among the 50th of the site. Félix Gaillard proposes to the owners to acquire them "at a price of 10 francs one", but the state considering a total expropriation, no decision was taken and destruction continues. In 1888, during the reconstruction of the temporary wooden railway stations of Auray's railway line in Quiberon, the owners gave up stones free of charge. In 1889 Albert Macé estimated that "out of about fifty menhirs, only sixteen remained standing, and the system of alignments of Sainte-Barbe is irremediably mutilated". Following protests by the Morbihan Polymathic Society, a first classification for historical monuments took place in 1889, but it concerned only the four menhirs already acquired by the State. Twenty-seven other menhirs are classified by order...