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Port Brique II - Isla Legeaux

Scenes from Port Brique.

Following the discovery of certain shortcomings of the old Port Brique site, the Mayor and the Commander of the French Squadron agreed to move the port to a new, safer location further up the coast of Terra Australis.

The site chosen was one surveyed by French Capitaine Jean Thundier on one of his exploratory voyages aboard the brig Madame Thenardier. By a quirk of fate, he named the site which would one day be Port Brique as Isla Legeaux - in honour of the Commander of the French Squadron.

Isla Legeaux has been extensively reclaimed, and is separated from the mainland by a short bridge, upon which has been built the Arc de Petite Triumph (the “arch of small victories”).

A few buildings were moved intact from the old site, but most, including Fort Brique and the cathedral of Notre Dean were built new.

The new Port Brique remains under construction, and the Grande Armie of the South Pacifique has yet to arrive, but in the meantime, here are a few images of Port Brique and its people.

The northern seawall of Isla Legeaux from a Type IV Montgolfier.
   The Boulevard de Brique, looking northward. Note the bare spars of the Madame Thenardier
   The Arc de Petite Triumph, marking the entrance to Port Brique on Isla Legeaux
   Fort Brique
   Notre Dean Cathedral, from the top of Fort Brique.
 
Looking toward the Boulevard de Brique from atop the Arc de Petite Triumph
   Looking into the Rue de Entrepeneur
   The dock alongside the Boulevard de Brique
   Battery Point Square, with Fort Brique on the left and Notre Dean on the right.
   View across Port Brique, toward the Notre Deane Cathedral from atop the Arc de Petite Triumph
 
From the under the Arc de Petite Triumph, looking up at Fort Brique
   Dockside at the Boulevard de Brique
   Heading down to the dock from Boulevard de Brique. Note the HMLS Demand (blue sails).
   The Rue de Entrepeneur, with Le Costi’s Fish Shop at the end.
   Dockside Park (site for future development). That’s the HMLS Demand in port.
 
Linque Avenue.
   Battery Point Square, the north-east corner of Port Brique, is always a hive of activity.
   From Fort Brique, looking south-west toward Dockside Park
   Arc de Petite Triumph, from Fort Brique.
   Looking south-east from Fort Brique, toward the swamp which separates Isla Legeaux from Terra Australis
 
Battery Point Square, with drilling Hessians.
   Battery Point Square, looking from the sea wall toward the cathedral.
   The north-east corner of Port Brique, from sea level. (Ignore the helicopter in the background).
   Looking along the eastern sea wall of Port Brique
   From the north east cannon emplacement, to Fort Brique (note the docked Type IV Montgolfier Balloon de Observacion).
 
From the southern end of the eastern sea wall.
   Looking along the Boulevard de Brique from the Bastion Tower.
   From a visiting Type IV Montgolfier, showing the Madame Thendardier and HMLS Demand in port.
   The north west corner of Isla Legeaux
   View of Port Brique from the north.
 
Rock fisherman climb down the sea wall.
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