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Corps de garde de Saint-Pair

Granville, Manche, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Corps de garde de Saint-Pair, à la pointe du Roc (cad. AT 252) : inscription par arrêté du 27 février 1987
Protection dates
1987/02/27 : inscrit MH
Type
corps de garde
Main period of construction
18e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Granville
Département
Manche
Region
Normandie
Country
France
Coordinates
48.83338, -1.61007
Mérimée reference
PA00110417

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library

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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Les corps de garde, postes de guets édifiés pour la surveillance des côtes, dépendaient de capitaineries de mille hommes organisées en 1705 tout au long du littoral de Normandie. Les côtes de la Manche comportaient treize capitaineries et soixante-dix corps de garde. Les capitaineries furent supprimées en 1778.

English translation

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The guard posts, watch posts built for the surveillance of the coasts, depended on captaincies of a thousand men organised in 1705 all along the coast of Normandy. The coasts of the English Channel comprised thirteen captaincies and seventy guard posts. The captaincies were suppressed in 1778.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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