L'Île-Rousse is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.
Port
Torra di a Petra
View from the tower
Bust of Pasquale Paoli
Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island. He became the President of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica and wrote the Constitution of the state.
Commemorative plaque to Paoli at the monastery of Saint Anthony of Casabianca.
Paoli's name listed on the south face of the Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial in London
Pasquale Paoli by Henry Benbridge, 1768
From a book by Edward Joy Morris, published 1855