Fort of Mont-Valérien

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Mont-Valérien fortress is a five-sided polygonal fort built between 1840 and 1846. It is one of the sixteen forts built around Paris. It was constructed on Mont Valérien in the early 1840s, a hill rising to 161 metres, located about two kilometres west of Paris, in the communes of Suresnes (for the most part), Nanterre and Rueil-Malmaison. Its address is: avenue du Professeur-Léon-Bernard, 92150 Suresnes. During the Second World War, more than a thousand resistance fighters and hostages were shot there by the Germans. It houses the strategic operations headquarters (non-permanent unit) and the Joint Directorate of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems for Île-de-France / 8th Signals Regiment (DIRISI IDF/8e RT), which succeeded the 8th Signals Regiment, disbanded on 1 August 2014. The Memorial of Free France, erected in homage to all those who died in the 1939–1945 war, inaugurated by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1960, lies outside the fortress, leaning against its southern perimeter wall.