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Military Facility Attractions In Ile-de-France

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Île-de-France , also known as the région parisienne , is one of the 18 regions of France and includes the city of Paris. It covers 12,012 square kilometres and has its own regional council and president. It had an official estimated population of of 12,246,234 as of January 1, 2018, or 18.2% of the population of France.The region is made up of eight administrative departments: Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines. Created as the District of the Paris Region in 1961, it was renamed after the historic province of Île-de-France in 1976 when its administrative status was aligned with th...
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  • 1. Fort de Sucy Sucy En Brie
    Fort de Sucy was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the southeast of Paris in Sucy-en-Brie, the fort was part of an outer ring of eighteen major fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effectiveness of artillery since the construction of the Thiers fortifications of the 1840s. It was built in accordance with improved principles of fortification developed for the Séré de Rivières system. The Fort de Sucy was built between 1879 and 1881 on a location that had been used by the Prussians to bombard the Saint-Maur peninsula in the 1870 war. The site controlled movement on the Route nationale 4 and Route nationale 19 . The site also overlooked the Bois Notre-Dame and the Armainvillers Forest. With the advent of improved explosive shel...
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  • 2. Fort de Cormeilles Cormeilles En Parisis
    The Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis was constructed between 1874 and 1877 as part of a new plan for the defense of Paris developed by General Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, near the town of Cormeilles-en-Parisis. During the Franco-Prussian War, German troops had used the hill upon which the fort sits as a spotting and firing location, ideal for the siting of new rifled guns whose range was increased over old-fashioned smooth-bore guns. These weapons could attack Paris from Cormeilles, so a new outer ring of forts had to be built outside the first ring of forts built in 1840-1860 to deny the area to enemy gunners. The Séré de Rivières system was designed as a response to these technological innovations, and to the loss of French territories in Alsace and Lorraine.
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