• Fort Boyard (. French pronunciation: [fɔʁ bwajaʁ] ) is a fort located between the Île-d'Aix and the Île d'Oléron in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits, on the west coast of France.
  • Le Fort Boyard est situé à 9 kilomètres de la pointe de la Fumée à Fouras-les-Bains (17), lieu d'embarquement des équipes de production depuis 1990.
  • Le fort Boyard : fortification située sur un haut-fond formé d'un banc de sable appelé la « longe de Boyard ».
  • Though a fort on Boyard bank was suggested as early as the 17th century, it was not until the 1800s under Napoleon Bonaparte that work began.
  • En route to Fort Boyard, Stéphane explained that the fortification is famous for being the location of the game show, Fort Boyard.
  • The Fort Boyard project was to reinforce a defense imagined to defend the bay of Rochefort and the access to the strait of Antioch.
  • Built from 1801 to 1857, Fort Boyard was initially designed to protect the coast from possible British invasions.
  • It serves as the setting for the famous TV show Fort Boyard on France 2.
  • The chosen place to build the fort is on the sandbank "Longe de Boyard" then named "Ban Iaert" , but for the shooting range to be ideal, it had to be moved...