The initial idea for blocking the channel leading to the harbour of La Rochelle in order to stop all supplies to the city came from the Italian engineer Pompeo Targone, but his structure was broken by the winter weather.
Pompeo Targone | Pompeo Posar | Pompeo Giustiniani | Pompeo Coppini | Pompeo Aldrovandi | ''Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton'' by Pompeo Batoni |