Boyardville

Boyardville (French pronunciation: [bwajaʁˈvil]) is a district in the town of Saint-Georges-d'Oléron on the eastern part of Oléron Island (Île d'Oléron), Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

Materials were stored in Boyardville for construction of the fort, and hundreds of labourers who built it resided in barracks located there.

Designed to protect the mouth of the Charente and the arsenal of Rochefort, it lost any military purpose and is now converted into a summer vacation retreat.

The village began to develop as large fortifications were built to defend its strategic location, notably Fort Boyard immediately off of its shores.

The French Navy chose Boyardville as the place to operate a torpedo training school, and constructed a Naval academy in 1876.