Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Borne de corvée
Lannion, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Borne de corvée : inscription par arrêté du 27 avril 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/04/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- borne
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1785
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- à mi chemin entre Croix-Rouge et Saint-Jean-de-Breschan
- Commune
- Lannion
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.69880, -3.53120
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089260
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryIGN France — GéoportailIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "A new and correct draught of the CHANNELL between ENGLAND and FRANCE" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ouvrages en granit de l'époque du duc d'Aiguillon, ces bornes, disposées au départ des grandes routes, rappellent l'ancienne corvée due pour l'entretien des chemins royaux. De forme rectangulaire, aux angles biseautés, elles portent sur deux faces des inscriptions indiquant la part de l'entretien à la charge de la ville mentionnée.
English translation
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History
Granite structures from the time of the Duke of Aiguillon, these boundary stones, positioned at the start of the main roads, recall the former labour service due for the maintenance of the royal roads. Rectangular in form, with bevelled angles, they bear on two faces inscriptions indicating the portion of maintenance to be borne by the mentioned town.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de l'Islemanoirunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Cadochapelleunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemin du 17e sièclecroix de cheminunder 1 mi
- Manoir de Coat-Trédrezmanoir1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.