Fort Duchère
The Fort Duchère or Fort Balmont is located in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon, 9th arrondissement of Lyon. Composed of five bastions built between 1844 and 1851, it is part of the first belt of fortifications in Lyon, which include: *Fort de Caluire (now demolished), *Fort de Loyasse and *Fort Saint-Jean (Lyon), Fort Saint-Jean. This fort was unusual for its star shape, evoking the style of fortifications of Vauban, Vauban fortification and construction. It was demolished in 1960 and replaced by a sports complex. History It was originally built to defend Lyon in case the enemy managed to infiltrate Limonest by the road from Paris, more particularly by royal roads of Burgundy and Bourbonnais. In 1944, 39 French Resistance fighters were shot by the Vichy French at the fort after they were sentenced to death at a court-martial. Decommissioned in 1957, the fort was used in the 1960s as a recruitment center for the army, then welcomed returning soldiers home from Algerian War. ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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