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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.

Cross-section of the entrance to the Gironde

Cross-section of the entrance to the Gironde

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Cross-section of the entrance to the Gironde

Cl. Carole BAUER - Laurence CLIVET © Archives nationales

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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