Fort de Montrouge
The Fort de Montrouge is a military facility near Paris . The fort is located around 8 kilometers south of the city center in Arcueil , Val-de-Marne . It is used by the national gendarmerie .
history
The fort is one of 16 military fortifications that were built around Paris between 1841 and 1844. They are known as Thiers' city fortifications . It was shelled by Prussian troops on January 5, 1871, during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War .
After Paris was liberated in 1944, executions took place here . The writer Robert Brasillach and the soccer player Alexandre Villaplane were executed as collaborators . Other perpetrators of the Carlingue or the Gestapo in France were also killed here.
The most famous prisoner here was Marshal Philippe Pétain for a few weeks in early 1945 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ NN: Les Silences du Maréchal. Documents inédits en annexe. Les Editions nouvelles, Paris 1948, pp. 10 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 17.8 ″ E