Rochefort
- This is about the city in Charente-Maritime, France. For other uses, see Rochefort (disambiguation).
Rochefort is a city of western France, a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a sous-préfecture of the Charente-Maritime département.
Its military harbour has been fortified by Louis XIV's military enginer, Vauban. Off Rochefort, Napoleon Bonaparte was intercepted and surrendered to Captain F. L. Maitland aboard HMS Bellerophon, July 17, 1815, ending the "Hundred Days".
The town gained some fleeting fame with Jacques Demy's musical movie Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967).
Rochefort was the birthplace of Pierre Loti. His house has been turned into a museum.
