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  • Fort Barraux

    … have originated from the two earlier fortifications, Bellecombe and La Buissière, which had been abandoned twenty … earlier. On 15 March 1598, the construction had just been completed when Lesdiguières took control of the fort, … which included two studded doors separated by organs coming from the floor above. Two other lunettes were then …
    Département/Région
    Isère

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Marseille

    … Its mission scope also included controlling the toll points of the port. This tower was replaced in 1447 with a … de la Garde (hill of the Guard). The construction did not commence until 1536, and was the first modern construction … similarly to the fort Saint-Jean, but the construction commenced from 1660, led by the engineer Desjardins, and was …
    Département/Région
    Bouches-du-Rhône

  • 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

  • La Rade

    … from the rest of the isle by a front with a tenaille, comprising two arrow-headed bastions and an inner fortified … facing the sea is still preserved. The military work was combined with a town-planning programme: the residents of … wall with a moat outside. This construction remained incomplete in 1693. On this date, the fortifications of the …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • 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

  • 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

  • Collioure

    … Following the death of Louis XIV, new constructions commenced at Collioure. The fort Carré and the star tower were constructed from 1726 to 1770 to the north of the town in order to complete the defences. Additional works, the tour Royale and …
    Département/Région
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • 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

  • Fort de l’Éguille

    … the spit of the same name, it was a tapered square redoubt, comprising a terraced rampart and equipped with twelve …
    Département/Région
    Charente-Maritime

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ussé

    … Hundred Years War. From 1424, Jean de Beuil, lord of Ussé, commenced the construction of the current Renaissance castle on the ruins of the medieval fortress. In 1691, Louis II Bernin de Valentinay, … during the same period. Following this construction, completed between 1692 and 1700, the castle took on its …
    Département/Région
    Indre-et-Loire

  • Toul

    … of this new urban wall. The emplacements exposed by the medieval ramparts were transformed into urban islets according … porte de France. However, the projects of Vauban remained incomplete. The decoration of the counterscarp only took place …
    Département/Région
    Meurthe-et-Moselle

  • Neuf-Brisach

    … from scratch by Vauban. Its construction was intended to compensate for the loss of the fortified town of … during the Thirty Years war. The Treaty of Rijswick of 1697 compelled France to return the Baden area to Austria and to … walls and bastioned towers with echauguettes, followed by a combat wall, which included detached bastions, large …
    Département/Région
    Haut-Rhin

  • Château de Joux

    … by the French in 1674 during the second conquest of Franche-Comté, the Château de Joux became French as of this time. … of the League of Augsbourg. He added the fourth urban wall, comprising a hornwork, flanked with two crenelated bastions … earth banks and artillery cademates. Captain Joffre, future Marshal of the First World War, coordinated the …
    Département/Région
    Doubs

  • Douai

    … started in 1670, directed by the engineer Chazerat, and was completed in 1672. The engineers Simon Vollant and Mesgrigny … station and a canal, that of the Scarpe. Only three medieval remains still stand. The relief map, constructed in …
    Département/Région
    Nord

  • Fort d’Alès

    … occasions to imprison Huguenots, deserters and other soldiers found guilty of wrongdoing. The fort d’Alès still …
    Département/Région
    Gard

  • Verdun

    … several times during the following century before finally becoming a permanent part of France of Mazarin under the … on modifications by remodelling the citadel, which he completed with the external section and ravelins, as well as … included arrow-headed bastions (certain of which also had medieval towers), preceded by ravelins and a hornwork in front …
    Département/Région
    Meuse

  • Sedan

    … received Sedan and the independent principality it had become under Henri II. The angles of the former castle … its primitive function of a princely residence to instead become solely a military installation. The town and its … occupies the barracks. Numerous activities, including medieval-type shows, falconry shows and “son et lumière” sound …
    Département/Région
    Ardennes

  • Sisteron

    … based on the Austrian-Sardinian threat. The citadel was completely renovated and its gates were redesigned. citadel … the public. The ramparts were demolished, apart from two medieval towers. … Sisteron …
    Département/Région
    Alpes de Haute-Provence

  • Embrun

    … was intended to replace the first should Mont-Dauphin not come to fruition. The first project was only partially … the end of the 17th century meant not everything could be completed. In 1791, the engineers of the Revolution proposed … left is two remnants of the fortified past of Embrun: a medieval tower known as the tour Brune (Brown tower) and the …
    Département/Région
    Hautes-Alpes