Fort Saint-Jean (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ sɛ̃ʒɑ̃]) is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Since...
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Fort Saint-Jean may refer to: Fort Saint-Jean (Lyon) Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille) Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec) Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, city developed around...
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Marseille explosion may refer to several explosions in the city of Marseille, France: 1944 explosion of munitions in the Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille) 1973...
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forts flank the entrance to the Old Port—Fort Saint-Nicolas on the south side and Fort Saint-Jean on the north. Farther out in the Bay of Marseille is...
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Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ kap fɛʁa]; Occitan: Sant Joan de Cap Ferrat; Italian: San Giovanni Capo Ferrato) is a commune in...
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been serving in the Army of Italy. The three were interned in Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille). Meanwhile, Louis Philippe was forced to live in the shadows...
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fortified (e.g. Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient, Saint Nazaire), which made seizure and control of the French ports at Marseille and Toulon increasingly attractive...
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Condat, Dordogne, since the 12th century Hospice of Saint John, Nice Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille), initially built by the Hospitallers in the late 12th...
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Notre-Dame de la Garde (category 6th arrondissement of Marseille)
pencil drawing of Marseille as seen from the Virgin of Notre-Dame de la Garde. The prisoners were then transferred to Fort Saint-Jean. The last of the...
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upon Marseille, at the head of his army, in order to quash a local uprising against the governor.[page needed] As a consequence, the two forts of Saint-Jean...
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founded. 1619 - Église Saint-Cannat (church) dedicated. 1640 - Maison du Refuge established. 1649 - Plague. 1660 - Fort Saint-Jean built. 1672 - Café in...
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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (category Museums in Marseille)
the 17th-century Fort Saint-Jean and a former port terminal called the J4. A channel separates the new building and the Fort Saint-Jean, which has been...
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Aix-Marseille University (AMU; French: Aix-Marseille Université; formally incorporated as Université d'Aix-Marseille) is a public research university located...
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forts of Mont Faron, which dominated the city to the East. They were reinforced by 3,000 sailors under the orders of Admiral Jean René César de Saint-Julien...
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The Marseille History Museum (French: Musée d'Histoire de Marseille) is the local historical and archaeological museum of Marseille in France. When opened...
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Provence: Château de l'Empéri The Calanque de Sormiou, Marseille Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille Landscape near Cassis Gardian house in the Camargue Mediterranean...
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Marseille, France, 1994 Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland, 1994 Galerie Graphe, Paris, France, 1994 Tour du Roy René, Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille...
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calanque on the coast near Marseille. A neolithic site dating to about 6000 BC. was discovered in Marseille near the current Saint Charles railway station...
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Antibes (section Greek colony of Marseille)
/ sous la dir. de Luc Long, Patrice Pomey, Jean-Christophe Sourisseau. - Marseille : Musées de Marseille ; Aix-en-Provence : Edisud, 2002. p 139 EB (1878)...
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governor of Martinique, decided to have Fort Saint Louis built to protect the city against enemy attacks. The fort was soon destroyed, and rebuilt in 1669...
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Battle of France. By the end of August 1940 he was interned at Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille, which had a liberal parole system that enabled servicemen to...
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roi René, in Tarascon Fort Saint-Jean, in Marseille Fort Saint-Nicolas, in Marseille Château de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Château...
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1648–1652, the young King Louis XIV had two large forts, Fort Saint-Jean and Fort St. Nicholas, Marseille [fr], built at the harbor entrance to control the...
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show gave some information: Entrance of Marseilles Harbour. We can see the Fort St. Jean and Citadelle Saint Nicolas which protects this entrance.......
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Gustaf III Airport (redirect from Saint Barthélemy Airport)
TFFJ), also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, Rémy de Haenen Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean), is a public use airport...
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Élie-Jean Vézien was born in Marseille on 18 July 1890 and died in Marseille on 7 September 1982. He was a French sculptor, engraver and medallist. Vézien...
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Provence as it was in other parts of France. On 30 April 1790, Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille was besieged, and many of the soldiers inside were massacred...
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second-largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making...
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Arsenal des galères (category Monuments historiques of Marseille)
shown by Jean Roulx's report on his installation in 1570 as keeper of the Marseille arsenal. In 1536, under the reign of Francis I, Marseille had 23 galleys...
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1990–95 Jean Onana – Lille, Bordeaux, Lens, Marseille – 2019–20, 2021– Ambroise Oyongo – Montpellier – 2017–22 Jean-Claude Pagal – Lens, Saint-Étienne...
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