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    The Fort de Châtillon was a fortification located about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Paris in the communes of Châtillon-sous-Bagneux and Fontenay-aux-Roses...
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    Palladii à Renaud de Châtillon" [On the Origins of a Great Lineage: From the Palladii to Raynald of Châtillon]. Media in Francia: Recueil de mélanges offert...
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    Fort de Joux (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ də ʒu]) or Château de Joux (French pronunciation: [ʃato də ʒu]) is a castle, later transformed into a fort,...
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    Fort Douaumont (French: Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive works which had protected the city of Verdun...
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    Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended...
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    Joseph Darnand (category Nazi collaborators shot at the Fort de Châtillon)
    October 1945 and executed by firing squad on 10 October 1945 at the Fort de Châtillon in Paris. Like some other collaboration leaders, Darnand had been...
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    Gaspard de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ də kɔliɲi]; 16 February 1519 – 24 August 1572), was a French nobleman, Admiral...
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    French army. The French fortified south of the Liane, building the Fort de Châtillon and Fort d'Outreau. The building of any new fortifications was supposed...
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    Jean Hérold-Paquis (category Nazi collaborators shot at the Fort de Châtillon)
    and subsequently executed for treason on 11 October 1945 at the Fort de Châtillon. Hanoi Hannah Lord Haw-Haw Tokyo Rose Axis Sally Francis Stuart Stuttgart...
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    Marcel Bucard (category Nazi collaborators shot at the Fort de Châtillon)
    death for treason, and a month later executed by firing squad at the Fort de Châtillon. Marcel Bucard went to the firing squad while singing the Catholic...
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    telephone. Fort Souville is located south of Fort Douaumont and southwest of Fort Vaux. The fort was one of the first forts of the Séré de Rivières system...
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  • civilian and military. On March 8, 1946, the CEA settled into the Fort de Châtillon in Fontenay-aux-Roses, located in the southwest of Paris. The initial...
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    barrière de fer: l'architecture des forts du général Séré de Rivières (1872–1914) [The Iron Wall: The Architecture of the Forts of General Séré de Rivières...
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  • Champigny Fort de Châtillon (Paris) Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis Fort de la Croix-de-Bretagne Fort de Domont Fort Douaumont Fort Dubois...
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    fort was connected to other Belfort forts by the Chemins de fer du Territoire de Belfort strategic railroad. The fort was equipped with optical semaphores...
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    The Fort des Dunes, also known as Fort Leffrinckoucke and sometime Fort de l'Est, is located in the commune of Leffrinckoucke, France, about 6 kilometres...
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    manufacturing site initiated by Edgar Brandt and nationalized in 1936. Fort de Châtillon, in the commune of Fontenay-aux-Roses, was assigned to the CEA on...
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    de la Salmagne was built to the northeast of Bersillies in 1884-1895 as part of the Séré de Rivières fortifications of Maubeuge. The trapezoidal fort...
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  • Jean Luchaire (category Nazi collaborators shot at the Fort de Châtillon)
    of the Association de la presse parisienne (Association of the Parisian Press) in 1941 and presided the Corporation nationale de la presse française...
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    The Fort du Replaton is a fortification of the Séré de Rivières system in Modane, France. The fort was built to provide artillery cover for the French...
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    is now abandoned. The Fort de Boussois, also known as the Fort de Kilmaine, was built between 1881 and 1883 as part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications...
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    The Fort de la Pompelle, also known as Fort Herbillon, is one of a number of forts built around Reims after 1870 as part of a fortification belt in the...
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    Fort de Bicêtre Fort de Bois-d'Arcy Batterie de Bouviers Fort de Champigny Fort de Châtillon (Paris) City gates of Paris City walls of Paris Fort de...
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    Bastille (Grenoble) (category Forts in France)
    in his book Histoire des fortifications de Grenoble de l'an 43 avant JC à 1900. The main square in the fort is now named after him; a plaque tells us...
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    Ouvrage Sapey (redirect from Fort du Sapey)
    that dominates the entire valley. The principal fort was built between 1884 and 1892 as part of the Séré de Rivières system. Construction was initially of...
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    Fortifications of Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries (category Séré de Rivières system)
    d'abord Châtillon-sous-Bagneux, puis Vanves, et enfin à Malakoff "Les forts de la deuxième ceinture autour de Paris - Inventaire du devenir des 16 forts construits...
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    designed by Frédéric Joliot-Curie, was tested at located at Fort de Châtillon; and on August 1, 1954, a Paris ordnance banned the honking of automobile...
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    Marshal Marmont, duke of Ragusa, born at Châtillon in 1774. It was burnt in 1871, and subsequently rebuilt. Châtillon anciently consisted of two parts, Chaumont...
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  • Mont Agel. The ouvrage forms a backup to the main curtain of Alpine Line forts, and was not initially planned as part of the Alpine Line proper. Its intended...
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  • the road from Nice to the Col de Tende. This corridor represented the main invasion route to Nice from the north. Fort Suchet and Ouvrage Barbonnet operated...
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