page_title: Barraux
section_title: Vauban and the Fort
hierarchical_section_title: Barraux / History (the fort) / Vauban and the Fort
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Plan de fort Barraux par Vauban
context_page_description: Barraux is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It includes the hamlets of Le Fayet, La Gache, and the 15th century fort, Fort Barraux.
context_section_description: When Vauban arrived at the fort in 1692 he is extremely negative about what was achieved by its predecessors. He asks for the improvement of the most obvious weaknesses:
  Ditches are made 2-meter deeper (6 feet)
  Design of bastions is modified with their edges sharpened
  Width of covered ways is reduced, their layout is streamlined and profile remodeled. Traverses are cut into them to confine the effect of ricochet  fire
  Galleries are added inside the flanks of bastions
  Watchtowers are remodeled
  Communication between the central fort and the ravelin of Savoie is modified with the addition of an open caponniere including parapets and palisades
  Curtains of the North and East fronts are enhanced with the addition of light tenailles and palisades
  Vauban finally creates the South redoubt
caption: Drawing by Vauban (1692).Original at Historical Services of the French Army (Vincennes)
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