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PROMENADE DU MONT-VALÉRIEN. PLACES TO VISIT.

This walk runs along, mid-slope, a thick and high stone wall separating the military grounds from the public domain. Approaching the promenade from the south, we discover the 1939-1945 Veterans Memorial, a vast esplanade surmounted by a Lorraine cross. From the 15th century, Mont Valérien was occupied by lay hermits. Ten centuries earlier there was a source of water considered miraculous and frequented by sick people hoping for a cure. In the 17th century, these semi-pagan habits were Christianized. After the French Revolution, the priests of Calvary, refusing to swear an oath to the Republic, dispersed and Mont-Valérien became a refuge for refractory people or aristocrats who sometimes ended up on the scaffold. In 1811, Napoleon built an orphanage there, in a neoclassical style, due to Percier and Fontaine. The building remained unoccupied due to the difficulty of supplying water to Mont-Valérien and especially its strategic position which in fact excluded any civil occupation. Thanks to the Restoration, the pilgrimage was relaunched. A new Calvary, a church, and a small chapel are built. Charles X himself goes barefoot to Calvary, followed by his court. But the revolution of 1830 saw the return of a climate hostile to the congregations and, in 1831, Louis-Philippe had the crosses dismantled; missionaries must disperse. After the vote of the Thiers law on the fortifications of Paris, following the occupation of the capital in 1814, it was decided to build a fortress at Mont-Valérien. During the Franco-Prussian War, the guns posted at Mont-Valérien, including the famous Valérie, supported the French armies and then during the Commune, government troops. From the top of Mont-Valérien, Thiers and Mac Mahon follow the entry of Versailles forces into Paris and witness the crushing of the insurrection. At the end of the XIXth century, the mountain shelters a school of telegraphy then a pigeon sport service. Listed as a historic monument, the fort was occupied from June 1940 to August 1944 by the Germans, who executed more than a thousand Jews and resistance fighters. Today, the fort is home to the 8th Signal Regiment and pigeons are still bred there. The fortress contains various monuments, some of which were listed in 1922: the "hundred steps" staircase, the crypt, the remains of the Saint-Hubert church, or the building built in 1812 under Napoleon I. Based on shorturl.at/bfRY9