Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne redoute d'Audouville
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Redoute, y compris ses fossés, à l'exception de lamaison d'habitation (cad. A 115 à 117) : inscription par arrêté du 23 juin 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/06/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- redoute
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Redoute
- Commune
- Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.42815, -1.19130
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110674
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN 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
Cette redoute en terre, qui a conservé ses fossés en eau, constitue un témoignage de la défense des côtes du Cotentin sous l'Ancien Régime.
English translation
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History
This earthen redoubt, which has preserved its water-filled ditches, constitutes a testimony to the defence of the coasts of the Cotentin under the Ancien Régime.