Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort du Petit Bé
Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Fort du Petit Bé : classement par arrêté du 29 octobre 1921
- Protection dates
- 1921/10/29 : classé MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Garengeau (ingénieur), Vauban Sébastien Le Prestre de, marquis (ingénieur militaire)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Malo
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.65254, -2.03847
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090811
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "St Malo et environs." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'îlot du Petit Bé est surmonté d'une fortification à la Vauban, composée d'un carré flanqué de bastions aux angles pouvant battre les murs intermédiaires. Sur la plateforme est édifié un bâtiment rectangulaire à deux étages destiné à loger la garnison.
English translation
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History
The islet of Petit Bé is topped with a Vauban fortification, consisting of a square flanked by bastions at the angles which could sweep the intermediate walls. On the platform is built a rectangular building with two storeys intended to house the garrison.
Nearby in the register
- Tombeau de Chateaubriand et ensemble de l'îlot du Grand Bétombeauunder 1 mi
- Maison natale de Surcouf, ou hôtel de la Bertaudièremaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.