Citadelle de Marseille (Fort Saint-Nicolas)
Star-shaped royal citadel whose heaviest guns once aimed inward at the city, not out to sea.
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This guide to the Citadelle de Marseille (Fort Saint-Nicolas) follows the military engineer Vauban's furious 1679 inspection of a fort barely fifteen years old, ordered by a king seeking a second opinion on the work of engineer Nicolas Desjardins. It traces the citadel's real purpose in the years after Marseille's own revolt against Louis XIV. The fort later served as a barracks, then a military prison holding resistance fighters during the Second World War.
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