Editing Antibes (section)

===Early Modern era===
[[File:Fort carre in Antibes France.jpg|thumb|[[Fort Carré]]]]
With the death in 1481 of [[Charles IV of Anjou|Count Charles III]], Provence was inherited by [[Louis XI of France|King Louis XI of France]] and thereby annexed to [[Kingdom of France|France]]. As Antibes was in the far southeast of the County of Provence it therefore became the border town at France's southeastern extremity, guarding the frontier with the [[County of Nice]], which was part of the [[Savoyard state]]. As such it was on the front line during the [[Italian Wars]] waged by France against [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles V]], and was sacked in 1536 by [[Andrea Doria]], a Genoese admiral in imperial service.<ref name="auto"/> [[Henry II of France]] therefore ordered the construction of [[Fort Carré]] in 1550 to guard the town against any future attacks, and the citadel was later reinforced by the renowned French military engineer [[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban|Vauban]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Carli |first=Félicien |title=Antibes: A Short History of Architecture |date=December 2017 |publisher=Éditions due Cardo |pages=30–1 |isbn=978-2-37786-006-7}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>

In December 1746, during the [[War of the Austrian Succession]], an [[Habsburg monarchy|Austro]]-[[Savoyard state|Savoyard]] army under the command of [[Maximilian Ulysses Browne]] invaded France and [[Siege of Antibes|besieged Antibes]], subjecting the town to a heavy bombardment. The arrival of French reinforcements, and a revolt against the Austrian garrison at [[Genoa]], obliged Browne to lift the siege on 1 February 1747, but by that point his guns had levelled 350 houses and also destroyed the cathedral again. The latter was subsequently rebuilt by [[Louis XV of France]], and this version of the building is the one that has survived to the present day.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tisserand |first=Eugène |title=Petite Histoire d'Antibes des Origines à la Révolution |date=1876 |publisher=Éditions des Régionalismes |pages=302–8 |isbn=978-2-8240-0609-3}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto"/>