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La Ferté-Milon is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the department of Aisne
Aisne

Aisne is a departments of France in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River....
 in Picardie
Picardie

This article is about the modern French region. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It is located in the northern part of France....
 in northern France

In La Ferté-Milon stand the ruins of an unfinished castle, whose façade was 200 m long and 38 m high. The singular form of the tower walls was probably designed to resist cannons and protect the gate. The façade is preceded by a moat. On the right is a square tower of which two bare walls remain. The top of the ramparts is adorned with machicolation
Machicolation

A machicolation is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which Rock could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall....
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La Ferté-Milon is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the department of Aisne
Aisne

Aisne is a departments of France in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River....
 in Picardie
Picardie

This article is about the modern French region. For other uses, see Picardy .Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It is located in the northern part of France....
 in northern France

In La Ferté-Milon stand the ruins of an unfinished castle, whose façade was 200 m long and 38 m high. The singular form of the tower walls was probably designed to resist cannons and protect the gate. The façade is preceded by a moat. On the right is a square tower of which two bare walls remain. The top of the ramparts is adorned with machicolation
Machicolation

A machicolation is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which Rock could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall....
. Access to the town was protected by a former gate of which two towers remain.

Behind the ramparts, two 160 mm cannons from 1909 sit facing towards the valley. One is annotated in Russian with the number 5085.

The tragedian Jean Racine
Jean Racine

Jean Racine was a France dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition....
 was born in La Ferté-Milon on December 21 or December 22 1639.

A statue of Racine as a child is located at the bottom of the paved Ruelle des rats. Nearby is a slate-roofed church with a square belfry with four turrets in each corner, one of which serves as a staircase.

See also

  • Communes of the Aisne department
  • List of medieval bridges in France
    List of medieval bridges in France

    The list of medieval bridges in France comprises all bridges built between 500 and 1500 AD in what is today France, that is including regions which were not part of France in the Middle Ages, such as Burgundy, Alsace, Lorraine and Savoie....


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