the port of Toulon to the British navy. Toulon hoisted the royal flag, the fleur de lys, and d'Imbert declared the eight-year-old Louis XVII King of...

port, next to a 16th-century fort, Fort Saint Louis, which was reconstructed by Vauban. In the 1970s, the city of Toulon built a series of sheltered sandy...

and voted in favor of Louis XVI's execution. Fréron served as a Représentant en mission to Provence, Marseilles, and Toulon between 1793 and 1794 together...

military port of Toulon, and the commercial port. The 'modern' history of the port began when Louis XII built his Tour Royale at Toulon in 1514. A naval...

du Musée de Toulon du XVIIe au début du XXe siècle. Toulon: Musée de Toulon. OCLC 886483242. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan...

The Bagne of Toulon was a notorious bagne, or penal establishment in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of the fictional Jean Valjean...

launched 17 November 1692 at Toulon) – captured by the Dutch in the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702 and burnt by them. Saint Louis class, designed by Joseph...

decided to have Fort Saint Louis built to protect the city against enemy attacks. The fort was soon destroyed, and rebuilt in 1669, when Louis XIV appointed...

Louis-Léonce Trullet (Saint-Tropez, 6 October 1756 – Toulon, 1 February 1827) was a French Navy officer. Born to a family of sailors, and younger brother...

The siege of Toulon took place between 29 July to 21 August 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when a combined Savoyard-Imperial army supported...

near city. 1748 – Bagne of Toulon (prison) begins operating. 1788 – Saint Louis Church, Toulon [fr] built. 1790 – Toulon becomes part of the Var souveraineté...

port, next to a 16th-century fort, Fort Saint Louis, which was reconstructed by Vauban. In the 1970s the city of Toulon built a series of sheltered sandy...

Archdiocese of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Petri et Arcis Gallicae; French: Archidiocèse de Saint-Pierre et Fort-de-France)...

St. Louis Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) is a Catholic cathedral in Martinique, an overseas department of France. It was...

Villefranche-sur-Mer). The history of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat tells that Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy built a fort at Saint-Hospice in 1561 in an effort to...

Louis-Joseph Beaussier de Lisle (15 March 1701 – June 4, 1765) was a career naval officer from one of the oldest families of Toulon, France. Beaussier...

served in the Saint-Domingue expedition, which irrevocably compromised his health. After his return, he took command of the fleet in Toulon, reorganising...

Versailles Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Versailles) is a Roman Catholic church located in Versailles, France. It is a national monument...

at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterranean fleet. The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV...

Toulon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Seds de Toulon; Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Toulon), also known as Sainte-Marie-Majeure, is a Catholic...

assumed command of the army besieging Toulon. On the night of 16–17 December, Dugommier ordered an assault on Fort Mulgrave which was defended by 5,000...

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death...

assistance. Suffren arrived at Toulon on 26 March 1784. Summoned to Versailles, he was received by Navy Minister Castrie and by Louis XVI, and much celebrated...

in Saint-Denis Louis XIV ordering the construction of Les Invalides Jules Hardouin-Mansart’s project with unrealized south esplanade Visit of Louis XIV...

Joseph de Bauffremont from Saint-Domingue with five ships of the line and a frigate, and four ships and two frigates from Toulon under Joseph-François de...

uprisings in 1630–31 and 1648–1652, the young King Louis XIV had two large forts, Fort Saint-Jean and Fort St. Nicholas, Marseille [fr], built at the harbor...

governor of Senegal from Brest to Saint-Louis. In March 1821, Golo ferried dispatches and materiel from Brest to Fort-Royal de la Martinique, and to Pointe-à-Pitre...

Lorient, Cherbourg, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, La Spezia, Antwerp and Civitavecchia; but Toulon, Brest and Rochefort predominated. At Toulon the convicts remained...

Battle of Coaraze. During the Siege of Toulon in late 1793, Victor distinguished himself in the capture of Fort Mont Faron, and was seriously wounded in...

Breisgau, Lille (Citadel of Lille), Rochefort, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Fort Socoa), Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Toulon, Wimereux, Le Portel, and Cézembre Vauban 1633-1707...