Fort du Loch

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Le château en bref

The Fort du Loch, at Guidel, belongs to the network of fortifications that protected the approaches to Lorient in the eighteenth century. Its construction began in 1756, about ten years after the English landing of 1746, which had exposed the vulnerability of the coast and of the great port of the Compagnie des Indes. The fort is surrounded by a wide moat; it is reached by a drawbridge spanning this cut. The curtain wall is pierced with gun ports (barbicans) allowing it to fire. Inside, two buildings raised on a mound housed the garrison and the munitions respectively. Despite this preparation, the fort never had to fight. It is now listed as a monument historique and constitutes a well-preserved example of coastal military architecture from the period of the Seven Years' War.