Lacoste, Vaucluse still. The oldest building in the town, the Maison Forte, dates back to the 9th century while the nearby Pont Julien remains one of the oldest standing examples of a working 1st century B.C. Roman bridge. Finnbar Mac Eoin, author of "Two Suitcases And A Dog" lives in Lacoste. He was the last person to drive across The Pont Julien before it closed to traffic in 2005. A plaque states, "We do not know who was the first person to cross, but an Irishman was the last". Lacoste is best known for its most notorious resident, Donatien Alphonse Francois comte
French ship Mars (1740) 1755 on a rock (now known as Mars Rock) near Halifax Harbour. French ship Mars (1740) Mars was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French Navy. "Mars"' was captured by off Cape Clear in 1746. She taken into Royal Navy service as HMS "Mars" and was wrecked in 1755 near Halifax, Nova Scotia. She took part in the action that took off Ushant on 8 May 1744. "Le Mars" was captured by HMS "Nottingham" off Cape Clear, off Ireland in 1746. Commissioned in March 1747, under the command of Captain Edward Hawke. While on a voyage from