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Under the Marie-Curie high school in Sceaux, the passive defense shelters have not yet revealed all their secrets

2022-08-05T05:06:18.060Z


SERIES (5/5). The basements of Île-de-France and Oise are full of surprises... In Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), passive defense shelters


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  • Behind the imposing Art Deco door of the Marie-Curie high school in Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) lies an unsuspected treasure and still unknown to the general public.

    It is in the basement that it is located, in a maze of dark alleys, where the past vestiges of the school are mainly stored.

    It's hard to imagine that, under the classrooms, the cellar houses six passive defense air-raid shelters, a legacy of the interwar period.

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    Source: leparis

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