Fort of Fouras 2 - Charente Maritime - France by Kordouane

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 20, 2018

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The mouth of the Charente represents a strategic site and already the Romans built a castrum there. The châtellenie de Fouras belonged to the Rochefort family in the 16th century, who obtained the right to high, medium and low justice, and to tax the boats on the Charente. In 1305, Philip the Fair bought Fouras and attached him to the crown, then granted again this fief who changed lords several times, until Jehan II de Brosse, lord of L'Aigle in 1449 (1454?), who built the keep from 1480 to 1490. It's the end of the Hundred Years' War.