History and visit of the Château de Joux (Doubs): Vauban, famous prisoners and 2020–2030 restoration
Château de Joux: the Jura fortress where Toussaint Louverture died
Lock of the cluse de Pontarlier, fortified by Vauban then a state prison for Mirabeau and Toussaint Louverture: the Château de Joux, in the Doubs, remains open to visitors and is undergoing restoration until 2030.
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Un verrou du Jura
On 7 April 1803, Toussaint Louverture died in a cell at the Château de Joux, denied medical care after eight months of solitary confinement. Two centuries later, the fortress overlooking the cluse de Pontarlier in the Doubs remains open year-round and is the focus of a restoration programme running from 2020 to 2030. Behind this name linked to the fight against slavery, there also lies a thousand-year-old site, reshaped by Vauban and later by the future Marshal Joffre.
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