Fort Saint-Jean
Nineteenth-century riverside fort whose casemates once hid a wartime resistance plot to save two Saône bridges.
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This guide to Fort Saint-Jean in Lyon centers on the night of September 1, 1944, when German occupiers were using the fort's own casemates as a Luftwaffe command post while a group of unarmed resistance volunteers gathered nearby in the dark. Their target was two specific Saône bridges, just a short walk from the fort, as German engineers worked through the night wiring crossing after crossing to blow. It also traces the fort's earlier brush with demolition in 1827 and its rebuilding into a barracks that once held over five hundred soldiers. Stand in the courtyard the casemates still ring, quiet now.
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