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The Citadel of Besançon (French: Citadelle de Besançon, pronounced [sitadɛl də bəzɑ̃sɔ̃]) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban .
During the French Revolution, some wanted to raze the citadel, claiming that it could serve as a base of support for counter revolutionaries. Before being transferred to the Tour du Guet, the citadel is where Claude Chappe performed the first tests of his semaphore telegraph .
Within the citadel on the side of La Place de Manœuvre a small Baroque-style chapel was built. Outside, Le Mur des Fusillés (the wall of the people executed by a firing squad) pays tribute to the 218 members of the French Resistance shot in the citadel's ditch during World War II. [4]
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Mont-Saint-Michel [ 3 ] ( French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl] ; Norman : Mont Saint Miché ; English: Saint Michael 's Mount ) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy , France.
The Temple is also known for having been the place where the French royal family was jailed at the time of the French Revolution. Members of the royal family imprisoned at the Temple's tower were: Louis XVI, King of France, from 13 August 1792 to 21 January 1793, when he was taken to be executed by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution;
The attack on the Bastille in the French Revolution – though afterwards remembered mainly for the release of the handful of prisoners incarcerated there – was to considerable degree motivated by the structure's being a Royal citadel in the midst of revolutionary Paris.
The Lion of Belfort, symbolic of the defense of Belfort in 1870–71, with the citadel behind. The fortified region of Belfort (place fortifiée de Belfort) formed the first line of defense in the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications in the Belfort Gap.
French Engineer Corps during the Siege of Antwerp The citadel of Antwerp after its capture by the French Army. The siege of Antwerp took place after fighting in the Belgian Revolution ended. On 15 November 1832, the French Armée du Nord under Marshal Gérard began to lay siege to the Dutch troops there under David Chassé. The siege ended on ...