Le gardien du feu

A wind‑swept promontory on the rugged coast of Brittany shelters the solitary stone beacon of Gorlébella. When a young engineer hands the narrator a weather‑worn folder marked “Phare de Gorlébella, 1876,” the quiet routine of the lighthouse’s three‑man crew is suddenly disrupted by a telegram reporting that the light, which had burned all day, was inexplicably extinguished at night. The documents reveal the stark, almost barren life of the keepers, the rhythm of their shifts, and the uneasy silence that seems to settle over the cliffs.

Within the same folder lies a raw, hand‑written account by Goulven Dénès, the chief keeper, confessing a series of unsettling lapses in duty and hinting at a tragedy that still haunts the lighthouse. As the engineer and narrator begin to piece together these fragments, they are drawn into a tense investigation of what truly happened on that remote outpost, where the sea’s relentless roar masks secrets waiting to be uncovered.