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 130 monument to his genius, and outlasted the rock upon which its foundation was laid.

During the rebuilding of the first lighthouse a French privateer on one occasion captured and bore home in triumph all the workmen, with their tools, from the rock, France at that time being at war with England. When Louis XIV. heard of this, he immediately ordered the workmen to be released and their captors put in their places, indignantly remarking that though he was at war with England, he was not at war with mankind, and that a lighthouse was intended to benefit every maritime nation on the earth.