---
type: "Story Source Pack"
title: "The Light Is Not the Lighthouse"
description: "Source-grounded facts, targets, and evidence rules for AI tools."
resource: "https://light.lux143.org/stories/french-lighthouse-identity-evolution/"
tags:
  - "light_group"
  - "en"
timestamp: "2026-07-03T16:41:37Z"
language: "en"
story_id: "french-lighthouse-identity-evolution"
---

# The Light Is Not the Lighthouse

Story ID: `french-lighthouse-identity-evolution`
Language: `en`
Story type: `light_group`

## Narrative Angle

French lighthouse identity is traced through three cases where the signal outlives the material tower, the original optical apparatus, or the keeper regime: La Coubre, Ar-Men, and Cordouan.

## Targets

- LUX-LH-000249 (lighthouse): Petit Minou /node/935/
- LUX-LH-000618 (lighthouse): Cordouan Lighthouse /lighthouses/LUX-LH-000618/
- LUX-LH-000619 (lighthouse): La Coubre Lighthouse /lighthouses/LUX-LH-000619/

## Key Claims

- LUX-LH-000249 / alternate_name: Пти Мину (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / location_taxonomy: самые красивые (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / location_taxonomy: Франция (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / media: 1018 (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / media: 1019 (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / source_link: http://alp.org.ua (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / construction_date: 1867-1881 (1867)
- LUX-LH-000249 / first_lit_date: 1881 (1881)
- LUX-LH-000249 / light_characteristic: Fl(3) W 20s (undated)
- LUX-LH-000249 / automation_date: 1990-04-10 (1990-04-10)
- LUX-LH-000249 / apparatus_change: Mercury-bath support removed and replaced during restoration work. (2019)
- LUX-LH-000618 / heritage_status: UNESCO World Heritage property (2021)
- LUX-LH-000619 / identity_note: Successive La Coubre towers are treated as a draft identity-evolution research topic pending field-level verification. (undated)

## Heritage Assets

- No linked heritage assets.

## Timeline And Relations

- No dated relations selected.

## Evidence Rules For AI Tools

- Use only the facts, relations, and source evidence in this pack.
- Treat open questions as unknowns, not as facts.
- Preserve source titles/links when making scripts, slides, audio, or video outlines.
- Do not claim that an AI-generated script is canonical data.

## Open Questions

- No open questions recorded.