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La Rochelle (UK: / ˌ l æ r ɒ ˈ ʃ ɛ l /, US: / ˌ l ɑː r oʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ l /, French: [la ʁɔʃɛl] ⓘ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: La Rochéle) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.
10th C. – La Rochelle existed under the name of Rupella. [1] 1199 – "Communal charter" granted Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine. [1] 1209 – Lantern Tower founded. [1] 1219 – La Rochelle besieged during the Albigensian Crusade. 1224 – Siege of La Rochelle (1224) by forces of Louis VIII of France. [1] 1298 – Hôtel de Ville completed. [2 ...
La Rochelle at the time of the 1572–1573 siege. Since 1568, La Rochelle had been the main base of the Huguenots in France. A city of 20,000 inhabitants and a port of strategic importance with historic links to England, La Rochelle benefited from administrative autonomy (lack of seigneur, bishop, or parlement) and had become overwhelmingly Huguenot ().
La Rochelle was the greatest stronghold among the Huguenot cities of France, and the centre of Huguenot resistance. Cardinal Richelieu acted as commander of the besiegers when the King was absent. Once hostilities started, French engineers isolated the city with entrenchments 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) long, fortified by 11 forts and 18 redoubts.
In October 1911, a statue by the sculptor, Ernest Henri Dubois, of the huguenot, Jean Guiton, was unveiled in the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. [14] Then, in July 1948, General Charles de Gaulle unveiled a plaque on the town hall to commemorate the life of the former mayor, Léonce Vieljeux, who had refused to cooperate with a German officer who wanted a swastika flag hung on the town hall ...
The centrepiece of the conflict was the siege of La Rochelle (1627–28), in which the English Crown supported the French Huguenots in their fight against the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France. La Rochelle had become the stronghold of the French Huguenots, under its own governance.
Aunis (French: [onis, oni]) is a historical province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime.Its historic capital is La Rochelle, which took over from Castrum Allionis (Châtelaillon) the historic capital which gives its name to the province.
The Chain Tower (1384) (French:La tour de la Chaîne) along with the Lantern tower and the Saint Nicolas Tower, is one of the three medieval towers guarding the port in La Rochelle, France. It is called the Chain tower because an actual chain was stretched across the port entrance from this building.