Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Redoute dite Redoute Louis XIV (également sur commune de Urrugne)
Biriatou, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Redoute (cad. Biriatou A 738 ; 1996 AA 33 ; Urrugne AK 55, 63) : inscription par arrêté du 18 novembre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/11/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- redoute
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 18e siècle, 1er quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1813
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Biriatou
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.34410, -1.75212
- Mérimée reference
- PA64000013
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailIGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1756 map "Carte de Cassini (c. 1756)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Redoute utilisée pendant la guerre franco-espagnole de 1793-1795. Témoignage de la défense par le maréchal Soult de la frontière franco-espagnole face à l'armée britannique en 1813.
English translation
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History
Redoubt used during the Franco-Spanish war of 1793-1795. Testimony to the defence by Marshal Soult of the Franco-Spanish border against the British army in 1813.
Nearby in the register
- Villa Mendichkamaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martin de Biriatouégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix de l'ancien cimetièrecroix de cimetière2 mi
- Église Saint-Vincent-Diacreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.