Saint Philip Bastion(Le bastion Saint-Philippe). 생말로(Saint Malo)

Saint Philip Bastion(Le bastion Saint-Philippe).

생말로(Saint Malo). 프랑스(France)

 

"NAMED IN HONOR OF PHILIP II OF ORLEANS, regent of france"

This section of the ramparts borders a neighborhood known as California; an 18th century expansion of the city, developed by the ship-owners to have their down-town manor houses, for example hotel Asfeld.

Dating from 1714, Saint Philip Bastion has the shape of an irregular triangle - 2 embrasures open towards the west to protect the entrance to harbour and Dinard and 6 other embrasures towards the south to control the port and Bas Sablons strand in St Servan.

 

 

Bastion Saint-Philippe occupies the south-west corner of the town wall and, along with the curtain walls that link it to the Porte deDinan and the Bastion Saint-Louis to the south-east, forms the town's second expansion (1714-1720)

 

This whole neighbourhood was created by filling in the sea, based on plans drawn up by the engineer Simeon de Garengeau (Paris 1647 - Saint-Malo 1741).

 

Saint-Malo's ship owners, who made their fortunes from captured ships, seafaring along the Pacific coast of Latin America, and the Saint-Malo East Indies Company, formed a company with 24 share-holders in order to allot the 44 blocks of land constituting the new neighbourhood.

 

However, the houses' construction proceeded quite slowly ; only 13 houses were built in 1725, along with 15 other houses up until 1770. Many sites continued to be worksites to that materials could be deposited there, or were used to set up single-storey warehouses for ship owners.

 

This neighbourhood was called "La Californie" because it was inhabited by rish, welthy people such as godl diggers.

 

1944, most of the fine houses in this neighbourhood caught fire, but the famous row of facades termed "Coasaires" along the ramparts was rebuilt exactly the way it had been before under the supervision of Raymond Cornon, the senior architect at the Historic Monuments Commission.

 

The building to the left of the entrance to the Rue de Dinan, which has a chimney stack decorated with as sun-dial (1 Rue Saint-Philippe), was the home of the famous Robert Surcouf, the French corsair, from his marriage in 1801 until his death in 1827. The building was also used for administrative offices by the French Navy.

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Plan topographique de la ville de Saint-Malo avec ses accroissements (18e siecle).

Coll. Musee de Saint-Malo

 

Perspective des remparts depuis le bastion Saint-Philippe vers 1900. Doc. Musee de Saint-Malo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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