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"Completely Crazy": a Louis XIV Warship Under Construction in the North

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Planted next to a supermarket and a car dealership along a road near Dunkirk, a huge wooden hull suddenly appears, like the carcass of a marine monster. On the stern is the name of the future ship: the Jean-Bart, named after a famous contemporary dunkerquois corsaire of the Sun King. Such a line ship "of first rank", that is to say capable of carrying more than 80 cannons, it was "the carrier of the seventeenth century", compares Jean-Edouard Ca…

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Planted next to a supermarket and a car dealership along a road near Dunkirk, a huge wooden hull suddenly appears, like the carcass of a marine monster. On the stern is the name of the future ship: the Jean-Bart, named after a famous contemporary dunkerquois corsaire of the Sun King. Such a line ship "of first rank", that is to say capable of carrying more than 80 cannons, it was "the carrier of the seventeenth century", compares Jean-Edouard Ca…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Since the early 2000s, a small team has assembled a life-size replica of a Sun King's warship in the North. Jean-Bart does not have the opportunity to... Read more A Louis XIV ship comes back to life near Dunkirk, one oak board at a time appeared first on Le Singulier.

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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Friday, September 18, 2026.
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