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  • Entrevaux

    … the wars against Charles Quint, sovereign of Italy. The medieval fortifications and the castle built on top of the … preserved. The ramparts are now a place for walking and medieval style fairs are regularly organised there. …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Condé-sur-l’Escaut

    … when canons set up there and skippers began to engage in commerce. A castle was added by the Lord of Avesnes between … a covered way and constructed advanced defences. The medieval urban wall was partially replaced by modern … in 1931. However, remains of the walls and towers from medieval and modern periods remain visible between the …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Bayonne

    … The works were conducted by the engineer Ferry and completed in 1685. During this construction work, the … wells, chapel, as well as a new gate. Twelve hundred soldiers would have been housed in its garrison. Other projects … bank of the Adour, along the citadel, is currently being studied and should be realised in 2015. The majority of the …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Atlantiques

  • Fort Chapus

    … île of Oléron from the continent. The War Minister Louvois commissioned Michel Begon, Intendant of Rochefort, with the … at the centre of the battery, sleeping quarters for soldiers and the arsenal on the first floor, food stock houses, … replaced with six mortars. The garrison was thirty-six soldiers. Blighted by the marshes, the foundations were …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Louisbourg

    … du traité d’Utrecht, les territoires de Terre-Neuve et d’Acadie passent aux mains des Anglais. La France perd alors ses … initiale devient un réduit, une petite citadelle qui commande l’ensemble de l’aire avoisinant. Le front de mer … les sources et documents anciens français, anglais et canadiens. Il constitue aujourd’hui un musée vivant dans lequel …

  • Fort de Bouc

    … vaulted and linked by a spiral staircase. The garrison accommodated here included ten men and their captain. This … of the fort itself got underway and it surrounded the medieval tower. The engineer Raymond de Bonnefons directed the … Niquet Bouches-du-Rhône Current state The fort and the medieval tower still remain, although they have been …
    Département/Région
    Bouches-du-Rhône

  • Strasbourg

    … during the Religious wars of the 16th century. The urban medieval wall was endowed with bastions and glacis. Its … siege conducted by Louis XIV in person for Strasbourg to become French in 1681. After having captured the town, Vauban … has survived, integrated into a city park, and four medieval towers. The Governor’s residence and a military …
    Département/Région
    Bas-Rhin

  • Mézières

    … by a new one which enclosed them. This urban wall was completed in around the 16th century. The 1500s years thus saw the medieval keep transformed into a cavalier. The ramparts were … wall was largely demolished. The remains include a few medieval towers and a gate. Of the citadel, two bastions and …
    Département/Région
    Ardennes

  • Calais

    … channel to the sea. The urban wall was first adapted to accommodate artillery with the installation of new towers for … citadel was modified by completely doing away with the medieval castle which had surrounded it in one of its … century, the citadel housed a barracks with a thousand soldiers, two cisterns, powder kegs, food supplies and cattle …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Valenciennes

    … been well preserved and surrounded the original nucleus comprising the eglise Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon, the eglise … and Isabelle, governors of Spanish Netherlands, the last medieval sections of the ramparts were replaced with modern … districts replaced the ramparts and the citadel. Only a medieval tower, the tour de Dodenne and a flushing lock along …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Villefranche-de-Conflent

    … and knocked down four of the eight towers of the urban medieval wall in order to make the stronghold indefensible. … the war of Devolution, the Knight Nicolas de Clerville completed a memoir on the need to fortify … the confluent of the Têt with the stream of the Cady. Commenced in 1669 and installed by the engineer …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Ambleteuse

    … served as an artillery platform. The tower housed the soldiers’ quarters and the magazines they needed (powder, … one first rampart flanked the tower. Work at the site was completed in 1690, during the war of the League of … A basin project, dated from the same year, did not come to fruition. Once abandoned, the fort dubbed Mahon was …
    Département/Région
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Bitche

    … approuvé par Vauban en date du 4 novembre. Le chantier commence après l’annexion officielle de Bitche par la France … Le chantier de la nouvelle citadelle, surveillé par le comte de Bombelle, est achevé pour l’essentiel en 1754. Elle … un fort voisin, le fort Saint-Sébastien. Ce dispositif est complété aux abords de la ville par un vaste camp militaire, …
    Département/Région
    Moselle

  • Besançon

    … districts. It was the 15th century when the extent of the medieval fortifications reached its peak. At this time, … start of the 17th century, however, this protection had become insufficient. Besieged in 1668, the town was occupied … February to June. During this short occupation, Vauban was commissioned for the first time in order to fortify the town …
    Département/Région
    Doubs

  • Colmars

    … work on the two gates. The remainder of the urban wall was completed by the barbicans and machicolations. In 1692, … and engineer Richerand on site. Niquet restored the medieval urban wall and added five bastioned towers to the …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Château d’Oléron

    … Château d’Oléron History and description A medieval town and main agglomeration of the island of the same … wall with projections and small curtain walls. The engineer Combes proceeded with constructions following the death of … ravelin was build and the covered walkways and glacis were completed five years later. The urban wall of the town was …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Saint-Martin-de-Ré

    … were built under Louis XIII to replace a urban medieval wall razed to the ground in 1622. In 1625, the … The citadel was a bastioned square fort but remained incomplete when the English took over the isle in 1627, coming to the assistance of the besieged inhabitants of La …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Fort Sainte-Marguerite

    … (some foundations of a Roman fort were found). A medieval castle replaced this initial fortification and has … around the primitive castle. This construction was still incomplete however, when the Spanish gave the isle to the … not until 1637 that Louis XIII and Richelieu ordered the completion of the fort Sainte-Marguerite, having recaptured …
    Département/Région
    Alpes Maritimes

  • Marsal

    … initial project for Marsal in 1663. This project remained incomplete in 1679, at the time of his inspections. The porte de France was completely renovated between 1670 and 1676. Work began on four barracks intended to accommodate 1,400 soldiers in 1669 but was not completed until 1705, after their …
    Département/Région
    Moselle

  • Bergues

    … Bergues History and description Medieval town, comprising two initial urban centres (the Saint-Winocq abbey … the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. The same year, Vauban was commissioned to modernise the defences. His first project, …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Fort-les-Bains

    … and the road of Prats-de-Mollo. The tour des Bains, of medieval origin, was demolished to make room for this fort. … Vauban made some improvements but did not consider the complex to be a top priority. A project was set out in 1888 …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Fort de Bellegarde

    … however. In March 1668, the Knight of Clerville, Commissioner-General of the fortifications, visited the site … had its first French garrison installed, numbering fifty soldiers. This garrison had been in place for just one month … sole construction, a lunette directed towards Spain, was completed before this siege. The Spanish attempted to short …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Seyne

    … first wall with bastioned towers. Their construction was completed in 1692. Vauban did not visit Seyne but included … in December 1692. He advocated surrounding the external medieval tower by a citadel connected to the ramparts of the …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Port-Louis

    … Port-Louis History and description A town of medieval origin, Port-Louis, which was originally called … 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

  • Pinerolo

    … à transformer l’enceinte urbaine et l’enclavement complet du château médiéval, construits en terre et … rempart bastionné. L’enceinte, maçonnée également, est composée de cinq fronts bastionnés et cinq bastions. C’est … durant cette période que Pignerol va aussi être utilisée comme prison par les rois de France Louis XIII et XIV. Ce …

  • Belfort

    … Belfort History and description Medieval town, the origins of which can be traced back to the … into a citadel. This regularisation of the route was also accompanied by an expansion of the perimeter of the urban … on multiple occasions due to a lack of manpower. Finally completion came around 1703. Two projects remained …
    Département/Région
    Territoire de Belfort

  • Fort de la Latte

    … by transforming it into a coastal battery in 1691. The medieval keep was preserved, reused as a tower and inner …
    Département/Région
    Côtes-d’Armor

  • Huningue

    … engineer Tarade supervised the work. The construction was completed in 1680. A new town, in a pentagonal shape and along an orthogonal outline replaced the pre-existing medieval village. The urban wall included five arrow-headed …
    Département/Région
    Haut-Rhin

  • Fouras

    … constructed on the former moats of Ferry, which remained incomplete. castle then fort François Ferry Charente-Maritime … improvements from the Vauban period remain, as does the medieval keep. The latter now houses a marine museum. … Fouras …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • Gravelines

    … rampart with six great bastions and a glacis covering the medieval walls. The bastion of the castle was transformed and … not until midway through the 18th century that they were completed with the deepening of the Aa channel in 1740. …
    Département/Région
    Nord