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Le phare de Cordouan
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    • The island of Cordouan
      • An ever-changing naturak site
      • The estuary, a source of life
      • The estuary in motion
      • The Cordouan plateau
      • The myth of Antros
      • Maritime and religious roots
      • A religious site
      • Cœur d'ânes or Cordouan?
      • The fire towers of the Middle Ages
      • Maritime trafic on the Gironde Estuary
      • Shipwreks
    • A Renaissance monument
      • A royal tower
      • A lighthouse for Bordeaux’s river
      • Louis de Foix, a Renaissance ingineer
      • Cordouan and the architecture of its time
      • The inscriptions in the chapel
      • The memory of Alexandria
      • The royal chapel and its symbolism
      • The monarchy and the lighthouses of the 17th century
      • The first image of Cordouan (1641)
      • The « idea » of Cordouan in the 17th century
      • The fire towers designed by military engineers
      • Lighting the way with iron and coal
    • The Age of Enlightement
      • The Enlightement in the lighthouses
      • The English model
      • Financing Cordouan
      • Illumination the city and lighting the lighthouses
      • The device installed in 1782
      • Oil vs. Coal : the sailors’ complaints
      • Teulère, architect and engineer
      • Teulère, man of Enlightement
      • A plan for making off the Bordeaux river
      • Two project for raising Cordouan
      • Cordouan between science and architecure
      • A worksite at sea
      • A scientific project
      • Borda and Lenoir’s device for Cordouan
      • The Argand lamp
      • Rotating lights
    • Fresnel’s laboratory
      • Lighthouses become a national project
      • France’s lighthouses become national project
      • Cordouan and the French Revolution
      • A lighthouse commission
      • The 1825 coastal lighting plan
      • Cordouan, testing ground for Augustin Fresnel
      • Augustin Fresnel dans the « celestial » lighthouses
      • Fresnel’s lens
      • Soleil, a Paris optician
      • Cordouan’s first lens
    • Just another lighthouse ?
      • The moderniation of Cordouan in the 19th century
      • The national lighthouses network in the 19th century
      • A new lens (1854)
      • Ever-changing technology
      • From one lighthouse to a network
      • Marking the Gironde in the 19th century
      • Moveable lights
      • Lightshipsand tenders in the Gironde
      • A series of markers between Royan and Verdon
      • The lighthouse keepers
      • Changing of the guard
      • Lighthouse keepers during the Ancien Régime
      • Civil servant lighthouse keepers in the 19th century
      • Living and working at the lighthouse
    • King of Lighthouses
      • A maintained monument
      • Léonce Reynaud and Cordouan
      • The 1850 restoration
      • Lobin’s stained glass windows
      • A never-ending worksite
      • A lighthouse « culture »
      • Cordouan and scholars
      • René Faille, archive collector
      • Cordouan and the arts
      • Cordouan souvenirs
      • A postcard lighthouse
      • Visitors to the lighthouse
      • 19th century tourism and Cordouan
      • A Scotsman at Cordouan
      • Cordouan and lighthouse history according to Michelet
      • The invasion of Cordouan
      • The friends of Cordouan
      • The future of Cordouan
    • Ressources
    • Lighthouses historic monuments
    • Map of Shipwrecks

Le phare de Cordouan

Le phare de Cordouan, situé à l’embouchure de l’estuaire de la Gironde, est un chef-d’œuvre de notre patrimoine architectural et technique, en activité depuis quatre siècle, il est classé au titre des monuments historiques.

6.2.5 Un Phare de Cartes Postales

6.2.5 Un phare de cartes postales

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The island of Cordouan
  • An ever-changing naturak site
  • Maritime and religious roots
A Renaissance monument
  • A royal tower
  • The monarchy and the lighthouses of the 17<sup>th</sup> century
The Age of Enlightement
  • The Enlightement in the lighthouses
  • Teulère, architect and engineer
  • A scientific project
Fresnel’s laboratory
  • Lighthouses become a national project
  • Cordouan, testing ground for Augustin Fresnel
Just another lighthouse ?
  • The moderniation of Cordouan in the 19<sup>th</sup> century
  • From one lighthouse to a network
  • The lighthouse keepers
King of Lighthouses
  • A maintained monument
  • A lighthouse « culture »
  • Visitors to the lighthouse
Ressources
  • Lighthouses historic monuments
  • Maps of shipwrecks
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