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<p>Bluelink 1 book for <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Bharatpedia:Verifiability" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiability</a> (prndis)) #IABot (v2.0) (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User:GreenC_bot&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:GreenC bot (page does not exist)">GreenC bot</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Coord|11.9318|N|79.8331|E|display=title}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}<br /> [[File:Plan_Fort_Louis.jpg|thumb|A 1716 map with the fort ([https://warper.wmflabs.org/maps/2629#Preview_tab Alignment])]]<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Fort Louis&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;Fort Saint Louis&#039;&#039;&#039; was a French fort that stood in Pondicherry on the eastern coast of India. The fort was built around 1701 by [[François Martin (Pondicherry)|François Martin]] and completed posthumously around 1706. A canal separated the native and European settlements. It was destroyed by the English in 1761. The centre of the fort was marked by a citadel that stood where the Bharati Park is currently located.<br /> == History ==<br /> [[File:Citadel_Pondicherry.jpg|thumb|left|Ruins of the citadel, c. 1762]]<br /> Fort Louis in present day Puducherry was constructed around the year 1709. It was built on the French plan , which was established by Vauban at Tournai in the French-speaking Belgium. The fort was designed by an engineer, de Nyon, and had a pentagonal shape. It boasted five bastions and a couple of gates and had underground chambers to store arms, ammunitions and other commodities.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|title=The Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai. Volume IV. |editor=Dodwell, H.|year=1916|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24740|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24740/page/n274 256]}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.ifpindia.org/digitaldb/pondy2/pondicherry/data/pndi1700_urbanexp_en.html | title=Pondicherry from 1700-1761: Urban expansion and defensive works | publisher=Pondicherry Past and Present | accessdate=16 February 2020 }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The fort was bordered by a moat and served as the citadel with native and European housing in gridded layout nearby. The muslim quarter to the southwest of the fort had diagonal roads. The fort was destroyed by the British in 1761. The site of French Fort Louis was very close to the Government Park (also known as Bharati Park) which is now surrounded by government buildings including the governor&#039;s office. The areas of the town were called Ville Blanche (white town) and Ville Noir (black town for the natives).&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/citysouthasiaasi00heit/page/n122 106] |publisher= Routledge|title=The City in South Asia|url=https://archive.org/details/citysouthasiaasi00heit |url-access=limited |author=Heitzman, James|year=2008}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}} <br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/remains-of-18th-century-fort-excavated-at-bharathi-park/article22530840.ece Excavations of the Fort]<br /> <br /> {{Forts in India}}<br /> [[Category:Forts in Puducherry]]</div>

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