---
type: "Story Evidence"
title: "The Light Is Not the Lighthouse"
description: "Bibliography of source references for the story project."
resource: "https://light.lux143.org/stories/french-lighthouse-identity-evolution/"
tags:
  - "light_group"
  - "en"
timestamp: "2026-08-09T22:21:04Z"
language: "en"
story_id: "french-lighthouse-identity-evolution"
---

# Evidence For The Light Is Not the Lighthouse

- - [Phare de la Coubre - Un peu d'histoire](https://www.pharedelacoubre.fr/un-peu-d-histoire) (current_operator) - The official visitor site narrates the tower succession.
- - [La Coubre official identity and succession references](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA17000095) (government_heritage_inventory)
- - [Phare d'Ar-Men - POP / Mérimée](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA29000456) (government_heritage_inventory) - POP documents construction and apparatus chronology.
- - [Phare de Cordouan - POP / Mérimée](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA33001224) (government_heritage_inventory) - POP provides the official architectural inventory.
- - [Phare de la Coubre - POP / Mérimée](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA17008905) (government_heritage_inventory) - POP documents the repeated construction sequence and rapid coastal change.
- - [Phare d'Ar-Men - DIRM NAMO](https://www.dirm.nord-atlantique-manche-ouest.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/phare-d-armen-a76.html) (government_operator) - DIRM documents operation and recent restoration.
- - Video transcript and research inputs (local_research_input)
- - [Ar-men](/node/937) (migration_field)
- - [Cordouan Lighthouse - UNESCO World Heritage Centre](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1625/) (official_reference)
- - [Livre des Feux - Ar-Men](https://www.dirm.nord-atlantique-manche-ouest.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/livre-des-feux-r402.html) (official_reference)
- - [Phare d'Ar-Men - POP / Mérimée](https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA29000456) (official_reference)
- - [European Route of Lighthouses](https://er-ol.eu/explore/lighthouses/ile-vierge) (trusted_curated_source)