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Chateau de Thoiry en Yvelines
Renaissance Castle,superb botanique and zoological gardens and world-famous Wildlife reserve (1000 animals) with rare Comodo Dragons. 25 miles (40 km west of Paris by A13-A12-N12, D11.
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Fort de Joux
The cluse de Pontarlier has always been the natural narrow way of merchant roads towards the West (Saone valley, Burgundy) and the North (Paris, the Flanders), the East (Switzerland and Italy) and the Mediterranean South. Built at the tip of a promontory, le fort de Joux has been for centuries a sentinel over the cluse, and even more after Franche-Comte was included into the Kingdom of France in 1674.
Built in wood in the 11th century, rebuilt in stones in the 12th, le chateau de Joux was modified by Charles Quint then Vauban. A prison of State under the Ancient Regime, the French Revolution and the Empire, Joux saw Toussaint Louverture die, young Mirabeau and so many others be imprisoned. During WW 1, the fort was part of la ligne Maginot. A museum of arms is nowadays in this monument of military architecture, and shows over six hundred rare weapons.
Fort Mahler, erected on the Larmont mountain between 1844 and 1851, faces fort de Joux from the other side of the cluse.
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Chateau de Joux is situated in the heart of the Haut-Doubs, Jura moutains, at 5mn by car of Pontarlier, capital of the Haut-Doubs.
Situés en Franche-Comté, en plein coeur du massif du Jura et à deux pas de la frontière Suisse, le Haut-Doubs et sa capitale Pontarlier ont sû développer une économie dynamique tout en préservant leur environnement...
At an altitude of 837 m, between the green mountain of Larmont (1323 m) and the plaine de l'Arlier, Pontarlier (19000 inhabitants) is the second highest town of France.
Haiti liberator. Baptised François Dominique Toussaint when enslaved on 20 May 1743, he is probably freed at 33....
Born in Gand, 1500 - Died in Estremadure, 1558
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