Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort national et son enceinte
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Fort national (cad. AI 1) : classement par arrêté du 17 mai 1906 ; Murs d'enceinte du fort : classement par arrêté du 20 août 1913
- Protection dates
- 1906/05/17 : classé MH, 1913/08/20 : classé MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle, 2e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1689, 1743
- Architect or builder
- Garengeau (ingénieur)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Malo
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.65480, -2.02327
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090810
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryIGN 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
L'ouvrage est constitué d'une double enceinte dont la première est un chemin destiné à protéger la base de la seconde contre le canon, et à rendre l'escalade plus difficile. La seconde porte en son sommet des embrasures. Les bouches à feu étaient disposées derrière son parapet. La seconde enceinte renferme une caserne pour la troupe.
English translation
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History
The work consists of a double enceinte of which the first is a pathway intended to protect the base of the second against cannon, and to make scaling more difficult. The second carries embrasures at its summit. The gun emplacements were arranged behind its parapet. The second enceinte contains a barracks for the troops.
Nearby in the register
- Château et fortificationschâteauunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de la Gicquelais (maison natale de Chateaubriand)maisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.