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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.

Lighthouses Historic Monuments

Lighthouses historic monuments

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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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