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  • Rocroi

    … Rocroi History and description The stronghold of Rocroi was created in … disappeared during the construction of the town, which was completed in 1556. This fortified new town was designed in … and a part of the south bastion were demolished in 1926 to facilitate entry into the town. As regards the …
    Département/Région
    Ardennes

  • Château Queyras

    … Château Queyras Les origines médiévales du Château Queyras L’origine médiévale du Château Queyras est attestée en 1265 lors de son rattachement au Dauphiné. Situé à 1 390 … inutile pour la défense, Louis XIII décide de le conserver comme poste de surveillance, d’autant plus sur ce territoire …
    Département/Région
    Hautes-Alpes

  • Grenoble

    … Grenoble History and description Founded in Isère of a Gallo-Roman vicus, … was implemented to the south-east by the addition of two complete bastions, connected to the urban wall by two demi-bastions. Two ravelins completed these ramparts in 1661. The remainder of the urban …
    Département/Région
    Isère

  • Louisbourg

    … La fondation de Louisbourg Située dans une baie de l’île Royale (actuelle île du Cape Breton), la ville de Louisbourg … initiale devient un réduit, une petite citadelle qui commande l’ensemble de l’aire avoisinant. Le front de mer est protégé par trois bastions dont …

  • Homburg

    … développe à son pied. Ce château est acquis en 1492 par les comtes de Nassau-Saarbrücken. Ils commanditent les premières adaptations modernes en 1558, … traité de Nimègue. Les interventions de Vauban et de Choisy Vauban visite la ville pour la première fois en février …

  • Ambleteuse

    … Ambleteuse History and description The first modern fortifications were … one first rampart flanked the tower. Work at the site was completed in 1690, during the war of the League of Augsbourg. A basin project, dated from the same year, did not come to …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Château du Taureau

    … Château du Taureau History and description A site occupied since the Antiquity, Morlaix remained without marine … by engineers Garangeau and Frézier. The fort was only completed in 1745, at the start of the war of Succession of …
    Département/Région
    Morbihan

  • Fort-Lupin

    … Fort-Lupin History and description The construction of the fort Lupin was decided on in 1683 by Louis XIV to complete the defensive set-up protecting the arsenal of … dry ditch at the side of the battery. Two barracks, each housing four bedrooms, and drilled with embrasures on the land …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Gravelines

    … Gravelines Historique et description A site occupied by fishermen since the 7th century, Gravelines is a new town founded by … not until midway through the 18th century that they were completed with the deepening of the Aa channel in 1740. …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Saint-Louis-de-Brisach

    … à la ville forte de Breisach-am-Rhein, dont elle est le complément. (Voir fiche correspondante). Vauban dessine le projet de la ville neuve en 1678. Le plan de cette … ligne face au duché de Bade. Environ cinq cents maisons y ont été construites jusqu’en 1697, année de signature du …

  • Entrevaux

    … Entrevaux History and description A site occupied since the time of the Celts, the town of Entrevaux only emerged under the Merovingians on the right bank of the …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • La Rade

    … La Rade History and description The isle of Aix had its first modern … from the rest of the isle by a front with a tenaille, comprising two arrow-headed bastions and an inner fortified …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Sète

    … Sète History and description A site occupied since the Antiquity, Sète only became a significant port … wing-shaped structures. At the centre, the nerve core comprised a platform supporting the main artillery battery, …
    Département/Région
    Hérault

  • Mont-Louis

    … Mont-Louis History and description Mont-Louis is one of the new towns, completely created by Vauban. Its creation dates from spring … portion of the Region of Cerdagne, which had not been done since the treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659, twenty years …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Fort de la Prée

    … Fort de la Prée History and description The fort de la Prée was built from 1625 by D’Argencourt and Le Camus, engineers under Louis XIII. It … passages added. The Germans added additional blocks housing the defensive walls and to the sea front. coastal fort …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Château de Joux

    … Château de Joux History and description The château de Joux was constructed from … by the French in 1674 during the second conquest of Franche-Comté, the Château de Joux became French as of this time. … League of Augsbourg. He added the fourth urban wall, comprising a hornwork, flanked with two crenelated bastions for …
    Département/Région
    Doubs

  • Avesnes-sur-Helpe

    … Avesnes-sur-Helpe History and description A town of medieval origin, … Avesnes-sur-Helpe is the product of two older urban centres coming together, which first emerged around the 10th century … this modernisation, a new relief map was put together in 1826, replacing that of 1725, which had been seized by the …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Fort de l’Éguille

    … Fort de l’Éguille History and description The redoubt of Éguille was constructed in … the spit of the same name, it was a tapered square redoubt, comprising a terraced rampart and equipped with twelve shooting …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Redoubt of Sablanceaux

    … Redoubt of Sablanceaux History and description The first fortification along the beach of … the continent. He deemed that the redoubt was insufficient since it was vulnerable to a surprise attack. This was why he suggested replacing it with a square fort with four …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Huningue

    … Huningue History and description Created in the 9th century, Huningue belonged to the Habsburgs of Austria since the 15th century. Ceded to France in 1648 by the … engineer Tarade supervised the work. The construction was completed in 1680. A new town, in a pentagonal shape and …
    Département/Région
    Haut-Rhin

  • Phalsbourg

    … Phalsbourg History and description Phalsbourg was founded around 1570 as a … were left standing in 1650. In 1661, Duke Charles IV was compelled to cede it to Louis XIV and to cardinal Mazarin, … of the king. In 1679, Vauban visited Phalsbourg in the company of Louvois, the war Minister of Louis XIV. He …
    Département/Région
    Moselle

  • Seyne

    … Seyne History and description A town of Gallo-Roman origin, Seyne-les-Alpes had its first fortifications built around 1220 … first wall with bastioned towers. Their construction was completed in 1692. Vauban did not visit Seyne but included …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Fouras

    … Fouras History and description A site fortified since the 12th century, the castle of Fouras was … constructed on the former moats of Ferry, which remained incomplete. castle then fort François Ferry Charente-Maritime …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Maintenon Aqueduct

    … Maintenon Aqueduct History and description The creation of the Eure canal was decided … around Pontgouin, was located eighty feet above the basins of Versailles. Vauban was tasked with the … was one of the main obstacles on this route. To overcome it, it was decided to construct an aqueduct. The …
    Département/Région
    Eure-et-Loir

  • Port-Vendres

    … Port-Vendres History and description A town of ancient origins, Port-Vendres … came to nothing. The engineer Rousselot got no further than completing minor fortifications in 1693. Three redoubts … that the Count of Mailly, Lieutenant-General of Roussillon, completed Vauban’s town-planning project. A significant …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Hébihens

    … Site stratégique pour la protection de la baie de la Fresnaye, très vulnérable lors de débarquements ennemis, l’île des … visant à créer un asile aux navires de pêche. Le comte Louis de Pontbriand, capitaine garde-côte, commandite … à quatre niveaux : un cellier voűté servant de magasin à poudre et vivres, deux niveaux de mousqueterie et une …
    Département/Région
    Côtes-d’Armor

  • Fort Pâté

    … Fort Pâté History and description The fort Pâté is a compact tower with an … and a powder keg. It represents a real architectural feat, since the instability of the ground required the fort to be …
    Département/Région
    Gironde

  • Port-Louis

    … Port-Louis History and description A town of medieval origin, Port-Louis, … was very negative, but he considered that the site itself compensated for the weakness of the port defences, which had become the arsenal of the East India Company, created by …
    Département/Région
    Morbihan

  • Perpignan

    … Perpignan History and description Founded on a strategic site since Antiquity, Perpignan became the residence of the … also equipped with ravelins. This initial construction was completed in 1577 but others followed in the 16th and 17th …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Toul

    … Toul History and description A town of Gallo-Roman origin (Tullum), … situated on a confluent of the Moselle and the Ingressin, Toul had its first fortifications built in 375. This … porte de France. However, the projects of Vauban remained incomplete. The decoration of the counterscarp only took place …
    Département/Région
    Moselle