Fort des Mille-Fourches

En un regard

Le château en bref

Fort des Mille-Fourches is an infantry work of the Séré de Rivières system, completed in 1889 in the commune of Breil-sur-Roya (Alpes-Maritimes), in the Authion sector. Designed as a counterpart to the neighbouring Fort de la Forca, it comprises an entrance, a caponier and external barracks buildings. It forms part of the defensive system protecting the hinterland of Nice, devised according to the strategy of General Séré de Rivières. In 1932, a modification project providing for a CORF shelter beneath the fort, fitted with a GFM block, was studied but rejected in 1934 and never carried out. In 1957–1958, its defensive grilles were stolen, like those of the neighbouring Fort de la Forca, by a scrap-metal dealer from Monaco, at a time when the work had lost all military value.