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Ouvrage Barbonnet is a work (''gros ouvrage'') of the Maginot Line's Alpine extension, the Alpine Line, also called the Little Maginot Line. The ouvrage consists of one entry block and one infantry block facing Italy. The ''ouvrage'' was built somewhat behind the main line of fortifications on the old Fort Suchet, which was already armed with two obsolete Mougin 155mm gun turrets.〔Kaufmann 2006, p. 76〕 Fort Suchet was built between 1883 and 1888 at 850 metres altitude two kilometres to the south of Sospel, dominating the road from Nice to the Col de Tende. This corridor represented the main invasion route to Nice from the north. Fort Suchet and Ouvrage Barbonnet operated separately, the former manned in 1940 by elements of the 157th and 158th ''Régiments d'Artillerie de Position'' (RAP) and the latter by the 95th ''Brigade Alpin de Forteresse'' (BAF), which also provided infantry support on the surface. The entire position was commanded by Captain Imbault. The Maginot fort's kitchens were used by the garrisons of both fortifications, but the mess halls were separate. ==Ouvrage Barbonnet description== Barbonnet has only two blocks, an entry block and an artillery block, and, like all Maginot fortifications, is entirely subterranean. The Mougin battery is not linked to the Maginot fort. A link had been contemplated and a fully integrated design was prepared in 1929,〔Mary, Tome 4, p. 17〕 but the arrangement of Suchet's magazines and concerns about structure and cost prevented work on a link from taking place.〔 In particular, the magazines of Fort Suchet were not considered proof against modern artillery.〔 Block 2 is just to the south of the old fort, outside its walls and facing south, with its galleries, ''usine'' and magazines running under the east side of Suchet, at an elevation of 748 metres. *Block 1 (entry): one machine gun cloche and three machine gun embrasures.〔 *Block 2 (entry): one machine gun cloche, one grenade launcher cloche, three machine gun embrasures, two 75mm/29cal guns and two 81mm mortars. Two flanking infantry blocks were proposed but not carried out, one to the south with two heavy twin machine gun positions, a GFM cloche and an observation cloche, and a detached position to the north with a GFM cloche.〔Mary, Tome 5, pp. 61–62〕 A small blockhouse and casemate are located to the south of the main fortification. Casemate Barbonnet Sud was equipped with one FM machine gun and two automatic rifle positions.〔 Barbonnet's Maginot fortifications were built between November 1931 and February 1935 by a contractor named Borie, at a cost of 10.8 million francs.〔Mary, Tome 4, p.29〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ouvrage Barbonnet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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