THE TURRET DOORS
Building with two stone and flint turrets and a staircase, visible from Boulevard de Verdun in Dieppe.
Visible from Boulevard de Verdun and Rue des Anciens-Combattants-d'Afrique-du-Nord, the building features two stone and flint turrets and a staircase. All that remains of the town's 15th-century fortifications are this western port gate, the château and the rampart wall near the former Tour aux Crabes. A total of seven gates, including five facing the sea, punctuated the ramparts, and were sacrificed when the town was modernised in the 19th century, a transformation partly due to Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry, who played an important role in the development of the budding seaside town. The Porte des Tourelles was used as a prison until 1825. It was from here, as the plaque on the south side indicates, that the "filles du Roy", young women sent to Quebec by Louis XIV to "take a husband and contribute to the settlement of New France", left in the 17th century. The site is not open to the public, but today houses the headquarters of the association for the International Kite Festival, held in Dieppe every two years since 1980.
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