Fortified Sector of the Maritime Alps └─Sospel, Quartier Braus
Work number:
EO 6
Regiment:
95th BAF, 197th & 198th RAP
Number of blocks:
2
Ouvrage Barbonnet is a work (gros ouvrage) of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and one infantry block facing Italy. The ouvrage was built somewhat behind the main line of fortifications on the old Fort Suchet, which was already armed with two obsolete Mougin 155 mm gun turrets.[1]
Fort Suchet was built between 1883 and 1888 at 850 metres altitude two kilometres to the south of Sospel,[2] dominating the road from Nice to the Col de Tende. This corridor represented the main invasion route to Nice from the north.[3][4]
Fort Suchet and Ouvrage Barbonnet operated separately, the former manned in 1940 by elements of the 157th and 158th Régiments d'Artillerie de Position (RAP) and the latter by the 95th Brigade Alpin de Forteresse (BAF), which also provided infantry support on the surface. The entire position was commanded by Captain Imbault. The Maginot fort's kitchens were used by the garrisons of both fortifications, but the mess halls were separate.[5]
^Kaufmann 2006, p. 76
^"Le fort Suchet, dit du Barbonnet (06)" (in French). Chemins de mémoire. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
^Vauborg, Cédric; Vauborg, Julie (2010). "Le fort du Barbonnet ou fort du Suchet" (in French). Fortiff' Séré. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
^Puelinckx, Jean; Aublet, Jean-Louis; Mainguin, Sylvie (2010). "Barbonnet (fort du mont)". Index de la Fortification Française 1874-1914 (in French). fortiff.be. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^Puelinckx, Jean; et al. (2010). "Barbonnet (go du) Bloc 1". Index de la Ligne Maginot (in French). fortiff.be. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
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