Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fort de Penthièvre
Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fort de Penthièvre (cad. AE 1, 2, 6, 7) : inscription par arrêté du 23 juin 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/06/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fort
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Lieu-dit
- Penthièvre
- Commune
- Saint-Pierre-Quiberon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.54311, -3.13724
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091710
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 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Enceinte fortifiée dont les bastions et le casernement sont en bordure de l'océan. En juillet 1795, les émigrés s'en emparèrent, mais le fort fut repris par les soldats de Hoche. De nombreux faits historiques sont liés au site.
English translation
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History
Fortified enclosure whose bastions and barracks are on the edge of the ocean. In July 1795, the émigrés took possession of it, but the fort was retaken by the soldiers of Hoche. Many historical events are linked to the site.
Nearby in the register
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- Dolmen de Roc-en-Auddolmen1 mi
- Ilôt ou rocher de Guernicédifice à fonction non identifiée1 mi
- Tumulus de Beg-en-Audtumulus1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.