5164 x 3422 px | 43,7 x 29 cm | 17,2 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
6 agosto 2008
Ubicazione:
Rue du Quebec, Brouage, Charente-Maritime, France
Altre informazioni:
Established in 1555, the harbour of Brouage was the first European place for trading in salt. In the first half of the 17th century, it was transformed by Richelieu into a catholic bastion in order to fight against the rival town of La Rochelle. The walls, built between 1630 and 1640, surround the city in a square enclosure of 400 metres on each side. Brouage became the most important harbour of Louis XIV . In the last part of the 17th century, it began to silt up and the decline of the town started. Rochefort took away its military role. In Quebec, in the Haute-Ville, on the famous terrace Dufferin, overlooking the Saint Laurent, and at the foot of the Frontenac castle, you would have seen Samuel de Champlain's huge statue, in homage to the "Father of New France" and you would have read, on the pedestal of the statue, "Samuel de Champlain, born in Brouage in Saintonge in 1567".