Le patrimoine maritime de Rochefort

Dans un article paru dernièrement sur France Revisited, magazine en ligne anglophone, Gary Lee Kraut examine le patrimoine maritime de Rochefort, de l’Hermione au radeau de la Méduse en passant par la Corderie royale, Pierre Loti, les crânes des bagnard et les Demoiselles.

As a former naval and shipbuilding town once surrounded by marshland, Rochefort can’t stake a claim to quaint streets, charming strolls or photogenic vistas. But nearly a hundred years after the closing of its naval shipyard, the town has played its historical cards in such a way as to make this an attention-grabbing, off-circuit destination…

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