Théodore Cornut

Théodore Cornut, also Cornout, was a French mathematician and military architect of the 18th century, born in Avignon, who worked for the King of Morocco.

Later, based in Gibraltar, he was invited by Sidi Mohamed ben Abdallah, an Alaouite Sultan, to build the city of Mogador (modern Essaouira) in 1766.

Cornut was to use the services of hundreds of French Christian prisoners, who had been taken during a failed assault in 1765 Larache expedition.

He built the surrounding walls similar to those of St Malo, and organized the streets of the Medina quarter according to a grid system.

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Map of Essaouira bay, by Théodore Cornut, 1767.
Map of Essaouira by Théodore Cornut. When he left Morocco in 1767, areas in pink were already built (streets are still recognizable), whether areas in yellow (harbour front, and medina ) were only projected.
Théodore Cornut designed the Royal quarters or kasbah of the city of Essaouira .
Walls of the Essaouira Kasbah designed and built by Cornut.