Mont Valérien

monument, Suresnes, France

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Mont Valérien is an important defense post located in Suresnes, a western suburb of Paris, France. This site served as a defense post during the Franco-German War (1870–71). During World War II, it became a place where 4,500 Frenchmen were killed by the Gestapo, and an eternal flame now burns in their memory.1

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Suresnes
Immediately west is Mont Valérien, an important defense post during the Franco-German War (1870–71), where an eternal flame burns in memory of the 4,500 Frenchmen killed by the Gestapo during World War II. Pop. (1999) 39,706; (2014 est.) 48,526.
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Immediately west is Mont Valérien, an important defense post during the Franco-German War (1870–71), where an eternal flame burns in memory of the 4,500 Frenchmen killed by the Gestapo during World War II. Pop. (1999) 39,706; (2014 est.) 48,526.
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