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Le phare de Cordouan

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
- - The monarchy and the lighthouses of the 17^th century
  - The first image of Cordouan (1641)
  - The « idea » of Cordouan in the 17^th 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 19^th century
  - The national lighthouses network in the 19^th century
  - A new lens (1854)
  - Ever-changing technology
- - From one lighthouse to a network
  - Marking the Gironde in the 19^th 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 19^th 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
  - 19^th 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.

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© Association pour la sauvegarde du phare de Cordouan
Bronze medallion minted by the Monnaie de Paris in 1984
Bronze medallion minted by the Monnaie de Paris in 1984
Le phare de Cordouan à marée basse
Le phare de Cordouan à marée haute
Épave du Banc de Olives, Soulac-sur-Mer, XIXe siècle.
Views of the wreck Chambrette 1 of Verdon-sur-Mer
Wreck off the Banc de Olives, Soulac-sur-Mer, nineteenth century
Bust of Louis de Foix
The inscriptions in the royal chapel
Coupe du phare de Cordouan

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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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