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Rochefort

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Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
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About Rochefort

Rochefort is a cooperative in southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a sub-prefecture of the Charente-Maritime office. In December 1665, Rochefort was picked by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a position of "asylum, resistance and supply" for the French Navy. The Arsenal de Rochefort filled in as a maritime base and dockyard until it shut in 1926. In September 1757, Rochefort was the objective of a goal-oriented British assault amid the Seven Years' War.

Another foundation of early Rochefort from 1766 was its bagne, a high-security punitive province including hard work. Bagnes were then normal apparatuses in military harbors and maritime bases, for example, Toulon or Brest, since they gave free work. Rochefort is an eminent case of seventeenth century "ville nouvelle" or new town, which implies its structure and building came about because of a political declaration.

The purpose behind structure Rochefort was to a huge degree that imperial influence could scarcely rely upon insubordinate Protestant La Rochelle, which Cardinal Richelieu needed to blockade a couple of decades sooner. Well into the 20th century, Rochefort remained essentially a battalion town. The visitor business, which had since a long time ago existed because of the town's spa, picked up accentuation during the 1990s.

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