This rampart was built in 1194 by Pierre de Courtenay, in order to protect the convents and parishes that had developed outside the city. It was reinforced during the Hundred Years' War by the construction of fortified gates and towers. During the 16th century, the rampart lost its usefulness, was no longer maintained, and was used as a stone quarry. It is to the chance of the urban evolution and to the presence of a wet zone difficult to build that we owe the conservation of the part located between the Door of Croux and the Loire. At the end of 1960, the city bought this land to create the current promenade of the ramparts
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