Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Corps de garde de la Pointe des Poulains, dit Fort Sarah Bernhardt
Sauzon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Corps de garde (cad. AB 19) : inscription par arrêté du 30 octobre 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/10/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- corps de garde
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 19e siècle
- Later work
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1859
- Ownership
- propriété d'un établissement public de l'État
- Commune
- Sauzon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.38582, -3.24935
- Mérimée reference
- PA56000046
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLeiden University LibrariesTexas A&M University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce corps de garde crénelé type 1846 n°3 est daté de 1859. Il a été abandonné après 1870, acheté par Sarah Bernhardt en 1894, et conservé comme résidence estivale jusqu'en 1920. L'actrice en aménagea les pièces et dessina le jardin.
English translation
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History
This crenellated guard house type 1846 no. 3 is dated 1859. It was abandoned after 1870, bought by Sarah Bernhardt in 1894, and kept as a summer residence until 1920. The actress arranged its rooms and designed the garden.
Nearby in the register
- Corps de garde de la Pointe du Cardinalcorps de garde2 mi
- batterie de Port-Blancbatterie2 mi
- Champ de tumuli, dit Tumuli de la Lande du Semistumulus3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.