Yvon LeBlanc Site

Contributions: Louisbourg Institute and Yvon LeBlanc

YVON LEBLANC: First Resident Architect, Fortress of Louisbourg,  1972-1983 
In all instances please acknowledge: © Yvon LeBlanc

YVON LEBLANC ~ FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG 
PROJECTS PAST, PRESENT AND CURRENT 

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(A) PAST PROJECTS

At Louisbourg

• Chairman of the Fortress of Louisbourg Structural Design Team ~ 1972-1983 - Searchable Database of all Minutes of Reconstruction Meetings (1961 - Present)
    

• The Architectural Heritage Of Louisbourg (A General Survey) ~ Basis of course given to the University College of Cape Breton, Summer Sessions (1977 - Reviewed 1978 and 2001)
    

• Project Summaries as of July 1983 : Fortress of Louisbourg Town Blocks and Fortification Features - Reconstruction Documents

In Retirement
  

• Occasional Consultations and Research for Louisbourg
    

• Duc D'Enville Commorative Plaque for La Rochefoucauld Family
    

• Design for the "reconstitution" of a FANUM (small gallo-roman 4th cent. temple) as exhibition building for Châteaubleau archaeological site
    

• Small exhibition on LOUISBOURG at the Musée Sully  of Chatellerault, April 25-June 20, 2002 
    

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  Exposition au musée Sully, Chatellerault, 25 avril - 20 juin,  Louisbourg, Une forteresse sur le Saint-Laurent Chargé de la restauration de la forteresse de Louisbourg,  Yvon Leblanc était samedi au musée Sully

(B) PRESENT PROJECTS

• Louisbourg (1717-1983), Architecture Reconstruction

(C) CURRENT RETIREMENT PROJECTS 

• CE PRESQUE MYTHIQUE LOUISBOURG, an 11 page revision of a more or less anecdotic presentation at the Poitiers Colloquium "Acadie, mythe et réalité" in 1994
    

• POUR UNE ARCHITECTURE DE LA MAISON ACADIENNE d'aujourd'hui et demain d'après Louisboug This was presented in 1992 at a colloquium ARCHITECTURE ACADIENNE at Bouotouche near Moncton. It consists of: 

  • - 11 pages of text 

  • - choice of 8 of the rebuilt houses and 3 not built, with plan and elevation and sketches of minimum adaptation (as if the buildings had lasted) and present-day design influenced by Louisbourg 

  • - 1 plate showing a schematic study of variation on a "modulable" house using the still valid aspects of Louisbourg housing integrated into to-day's functional and esthetic norms.
      

• NEPTUNIA ARTICLES (pending publication)

  • Louisbourg et Sa Reconstruction (Y. LeBlanc)

  • The unsigned second siege painting of Louisbourg in the Honfleur museum (N.B. - Painhting of unknown origin discovered by M. Huille which I readioly recognized as depicting the recognisable last days of the second siege of Louisourg)

  • In collaboration with M Huille (ex-Commissaire de la Marine, Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes)

  • Contact Persons: 

    • Jean Marie Huille, "Bételgeuse" 3, 413, avenue Jacques-Cartier, 83000 Toulon, France, Tel/Fax: (33) 4 94 41 25 92

    • Le Conservateur, Musée de la Marine, Quai Saint-Etienne, 14600 Honfleur, France, Tel 011 (33) 23189 5400
        

• SCALE-MODEL OF LOUISOURG (pending finances) for Chatellerault, "Capital" of the Chatelleraudais, home region of the DeGannes Family, where, at Falaise, is a small  museum in the original part of the DeGannes Family seat, now in the Roux Family, Friends of mine.