Fort Boyard
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Key facts
- Type
- Fortress
- Controlled by
- France
- Built
- Started 1801, completed 1857
- In use
- 1857–1913
- Garrison
- 250 soldiers
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Île-d'Aix
- Material used
- natural stone
- Image
- Fort Boyard (51269094270).jpg
- Significant event
- maintenance
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- Commons category
- Fort Boyard
- Commons gallery
- Fort Boyard
- located in/on physical feature
- Bay of Biscay
- capital cost
- 3500000
- shape
- oval
- street address
- Pleine mer
- inception
- 1801-00-00
- different from
- Q92096
- architect
- military engineering
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Encyclopedic overview
Fort Boyard ( French pronunciation: [fɔʁ bwajaʁ] ) is a fort built on Boyard bank, an ocean bank located between the Île-d'Aix and the Île d'Oléron in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits on the west coast of France. Though a fort on Boyard bank was suggested as early as the 17th century, it was not until the 1800s under Napoleon Bonaparte that work began. Building started in 1801 and was completed in 1857. In 1967, the final scene of the French film Les aventuriers was filmed at the remains of the fort. Since 1990, it is the filming location for the eponymous TV game show.
Layout
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fort Boyard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.