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The Imperial Castle of Pont de Briques
Camp de Boulogne Headquarters
the Château de Pont-de-Briques, located in the town of Saint-Leonard in the Pas-de-Calais, was the headquarters of Napoleon I during the Boulogne camp of 1803 To 1805 .
In this place, Napoleon organized the landing project on the British coasts, but also administered France, taking a very large number of decisions on all civil matters as a soldier. Below, the plan of the castle, with the use of rooms from the Imperial period.
The Emperor's apartments are regularly open on the occasion of heritage days.
Plan drawn up by the chief architect of historical monuments Ch. Waldschmidt in 1969
(From the journal des Etudes Napoléoniennes)
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