Fort de Charenton is a fortification built in 1842 in the community of Maisons-Alfort, and part of the Paris defences planned by Adolphe Thiers.
After the fall of Napoleon I in 1814, and again after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Paris was occupied by foreign forces. To counter new invasion and occupation, defensive works were planned. In 1841 a new fortified enclosure of Paris was proposed, becoming known as the Thiers wall after its chief proponent, prime minister Adolphe Thiers. The plan involved the construction of a new fortified wall around an expanded Paris, the Thiers wall proper, and the building of sixteen new forts a few kilometers farther out. The Fort de Charenton was planned as part of this system. Presently occupied by the National Gendarmerie, the fort saw passing regiments as well as foreign occupation forces at the time of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and the Second World War.
FortdeCharenton is a fortification built in 1842 in the community of Maisons-Alfort, and part of the Paris defences planned by Adolphe Thiers. After...
be able to slow or stop a large troop formation. For example the FortdeCharenton was placed to dominate Route Nationale 6, the Paris-Geneva road, and...
The rebels quickly captured several strategic points around Paris from Charenton-le-Pont to Argenteuil to tighten his grip on the capital. Confident in...
were mad men: Tavernier and de Whyte, who should have been in an asylum and were soon transferred to the Asile deCharenton (Funck-Brentano 1932, p. 114)...
for electric cables), Charenton-le-Pont – Ivry-sur-Seine Pont d'Ivry (N 19, 1957), Alfortville – Ivry-sur-Seine Passerelle de l'écluse du Port à l'Anglais...
Protestant church at Charenton. 1607 28 May – Approval given for creation of Place Dauphine, on the site of the old royal gardens on Île de la Cité. 1608 1...
City of Paris). It also features a large military fort, now housing various army services. This fort and an adjoining plain known as the "Polygon" has...
a medieval hilltop town and commune in the department of Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France, overlooking the river Loire. It is noted for its wine. Located...
Eclaircissement de la question pourquoy le synode national tenu à Charenton l'an 1631 a admis à sa communion les Lutheriens plutost que ceux de l'Eglise Romain...
20th arrondissement and the 12th arrondissement (from Porte de Bagnolet to Porte deCharenton) x7 represents the 13th arrondissement (from Quai d'Ivry to...
Montreuil in 1921 Boissy-Saint-Léger and Fontenay in 1922 Champigny in 1923 Charenton, Alfortville, Saint-Mandé and Saint-Maurice (1924) Although the Centre...
Bercy 2 is a shopping mall with 70 stores and 36,000 m2 located in Paris Charenton, along the bankside of the river Seine and the "Périphérique" ring road...
patrimoine de la RATP [Heritage of the RATP]. Le patrimoine des institutions économiques ("Heritage of economic institutions") (in French). Charenton-le-Pont:...
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