Paul:

The French are a bit touchy about their military zones. I heard that Clive 
Cussler and the boys from NUMA got themselves in A LOT of hot water by 
discovering the lair of one of the French missile submarines off La 
Rochelle.

Seriously, we are looking for more information on everyday life at two 
French forts that we working on: Louis de Louisianne and La Caroline in 
Alabama and Florida respectively. We just presented at SHA in Williamsburg 
on XRF studies of these two forts and would be willing to share a CD of the 
Powerpoint Presentation for some leads in the literature as to metal-working 
activities at these sites.

Incidently, We are the ones that introduced NITON portable X-Ray 
Fluorescence (XRF) technology for field studies to Historical Archaeology at 
SHA at Sacramento last year and make the offer of FREE analysis of 
artifacts, soils and plants.

We are already working on shipwreck materials from the Denbeigh for Texas 
A&M, glass from Alaska and Russia for the Alaska Department of Natural 
Resources, a variety of materials for Colonial Williamsburg and we are going 
to be working on materials from a Delaware shipwreck and, possibly, a series 
of  deeply buried 16th Century wrecks in Florida and California. WRI is 
willing to analyze a limited number (generally less than 10 samples) of such 
materials for up to 25 elements at no cost if the materials are shipped to 
our Clarkdale Arizona Office and acknowledgement of WRI and NITON is made in 
presentations at SHA 2008 in Albuquerque.  IF INTERESTED E-MAIL OR CALL THE 
CE OR WRI OFFICE NUMBERS BELOW.

Sincerely,


Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
Consulting Historical Archaeologist and Remote Sensing Specialist
Cultural and Mineral Resources Manager
Carothers Environmental, LLC (866) 203-9930
Director, Wondjina Research Institute (928) 649-1408

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "paul.courtney2" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 5:27 AM
Subject: Vauban etc


> Not sure what I unleashed when I posted the original mail on Vauban- 
> clearly a lot of closet fortress buffs out there but one should note 
> garrisons often included families and had considerable impact on civilian 
> populations going far beyond the obvious concentrations of brothels. For 
> those who can read French a short introduction with lots of illustrations 
> is* Places fortes: Bastions du pouvoir *by Nicolas Faucherre published by 
> Rempart. In fact I highly recommend all his publications on French 
> fortifications. I suspect he is already at work on the French submission 
> re World heritage status. The book *Patrimoine Militaire* by Francois 
> Dallemeagne et al, Editions Scala  puts Vauban in a wider context of 
> French military architecture of all types not just fortifications and has 
> superb photographs. To lighten things up (snooks to the over serious 
> members of Histarch- archaeology should be fun or why bother) I  went with 
> my wife on a trek around the fortifications of Brittany and nearby seafood 
> restaurants a few years ago and stopped on a minor road to view  a c19 
> brick fortified line across a peninsula. My wife offered to jump over the 
> fence to get a better photo but I pointed out a) a sign saying something 
> like Military Zone - entry forbidden and b) remembered that the French 
> special forces trained in the area and not the 18 year old conscripts one 
> so often met on trains. At that moment a car screamed to a halt on the 
> gravelly road and a hard looking guy guy in civvies but clearly army 
> stared at us until we got back in the car and departed. Talking of which 
> has anyone a digital image of the C18 barracks in St Augustine used by the 
> modern National Guard- my nerve failed me at the sight of so many armed 
> guards outside though I should have asked nicely.
>
>
> paul courtney
> Leicester, UK
>
>