Louis de Cormontaigne (French pronunciation: [lwi də kɔʁmɔ̃tɛɲ], 1696-1752) was a French military engineer, who was the dominant technical influence on...
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Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (redirect from Sebastien de Vauban)
'third system', and completed after his death by Louis de Cormontaigne. Using ideas from Fort-Louis, this incorporated a regular square grid street pattern...
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engineer at the service of Louis XIV. Vauban died in 1707 and this, his last work, was completed by Louis de Cormontaigne. The city's layout was that...
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as an "immense battery." The intricacies of trace by which Vauban and Cormontaigne sought to minimize the power of the attack, are abandoned in favour of...
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Metz (redirect from Ville de Metz)
century citadel, as well as fortifications built in the 1740s by Louis de Cormontaigne but based on designs by Vauban. Important barracks, mostly from...
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Vauban and improvements made by his later followers, Louis de Cormontaigne and Charles Louis de Fourcroy. What little political influence the aristocratic...
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1696 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Thomas Chester, British Member of Parliament (d. 1763) May 4 – Louis de Cormontaigne, French engineer (d. 1752) May 7 – Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen...
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Metz Citadel (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
fortifications designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban from 1676 and brought to fruition by his pupil Louis de Cormontaigne between 1728 and 1749. The citadel has...
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François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo (category Commanders of the Order of Saint Louis)
accomplished. As Inspector General he managed to reconstruct the old Vauban and Cormontaigne fortresses, which had failed during the invasions of 1814 and 1815. In...
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enceinte wall itself was constructed following the system devised by Louis de Cormontaigne nearly a century previously. The rampart was composed of packed...
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1690s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Thomas Chester, British Member of Parliament (d. 1763) May 4 – Louis de Cormontaigne, French engineer (d. 1752) May 7 – Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen...
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éditeur, Ars-sur-Moselle, 2004 ISBN 2-912645-70-0; 216 p. Jean-Louis Jolin, Trésors de Metz, Serge Domini éditeur, Ars-sur-Moselle, 2008, 160 p., ISBN 978-2-35475-008-4...
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History of Metz (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
world's fair in the Place de la république and the Esplanade gardens. City scape of the Metz citadel built by Cormontaigne. The Germans' Gate from the...
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Jean Dubuisson (category Prix de Rome for architecture)
1961-1964: Cormontaigne residence in Thionville 1961-1967: Parc Saint-Maur residence in rue Réaumur in Lille (726 units) 1962 : Building at 63 avenue de la Bourdonnais...
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