45/46.- Bassin de Thau, Aigues Mortes (3)

The town was heavily fortified, and the city walls are still intact. The 13th-century Constance tower, which is part of its fortifications, contained a prison as well as an oratory. The tower was used as a prison for the Protestant Huguenots in the 17th and 18th centuries; among these, Marie Durand, who was locked up here for no less than 38 years.

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