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Rochefort is the name of several communes in France, of a municipality in Belgium and a commune in Switzerland:

  • Rochefort in the Charente-Maritime département of France
  • Rochefort in the Côte-d'Or département of France
  • Rochefort in the Savoie département of France
  • Rochefort, Belgium
  • Rochefort, Switzerland

It is also part of the name of several communes in France:

  • Rochefort-du-Gard, in the Gard département
  • Rochefort-en-Terre, in the Morbihan département
  • Rochefort-en-Valdaine, in the Drôme département
  • Rochefort-en-Yvelines, in the Yvelines département
  • Rochefort-Montagne, in the Puy-de-Dôme département
  • Rochefort-Samson, in the Drôme département
  • Rochefort-sur-Brévon, in the Côte-d'Or département
  • Rochefort-sur-la-Côte, in the Haute-Marne département
  • Rochefort-sur-Loire, in the Maine-et-Loire département
  • Rochefort-sur-Nenon, in the Jura département

Rochefort is also the name of a Trappist beer brewed in Rochefort, Belgium: Rochefort (beer).


The Comte de Rochefort was a secondary, but extremely important, character of Alexander Dumas's d'Artagnan Romances.


Not to be confused with Roquefort cheese.


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Rochefort was born in 1898 and enlisted in the navy in 1918.
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