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Le château en bref
Port-Louis Citadel guards the entrance to the roadstead of Lorient. It originated as the Fort de l'Aigle, a quadrangular fortification with bastions built by the Spanish under Don Juan del Aguila in the 1590s. Louis XIII had the citadel rebuilt, completed between 1616 and 1622, while the town was renamed Port-Louis. Richelieu added a demi-lune in 1643, and an urban enclosure was built between 1649 and 1653. The square citadel has seven bastions, four of which have orillons. The site became the arsenal of the French East India Company, founded in 1664. The great powder magazine dates from 1750–1752. Classified in 1948, the citadel houses the Musée national de la Marine and the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes.