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Memorial and Museum of the Escadrille La Fayette à Marnes-la-Coquette dans les Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine

Memorial and Museum of the Escadrille La Fayette

    5 Boulevard Raymond Poincaré
    92430 Marnes-la-Coquette

Timeline

Époque contemporaine
2000
17 juin 2022
Registration for Historic Monuments
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Heritage classified

This building is part of the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud established by Decree No. 2022-906 of 17 June 2022. The interior parts were listed as historic monuments in full and automatically by this decree.

Origin and history

The Mémorial et musée de l'Escadrille La Fayette is a historical monument located in Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine (92), in the Île-de-France region. It is part of the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, a collection protected by decree in 2022. This site is dedicated to the memory of the Escadrille La Fayette, an iconic air unit of the First World War, made up of American volunteer pilots engaged in French aviation before the United States entered the war.

The building housing the memorial was inscribed under the title of Historic Monuments by Decree No. 2022-906 of 17 June 2022, which fully protects its interior parts. Although the details of its opening to the public or its services (visits, rentals) are not specified in the available sources, its status as a historic monument and its attachment to the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud underline its heritage importance. The official address recorded in the Mérimée base is 5 Boulevard Raymond Poincaré, although an approximate GPS location is also located near Rue Yves Cariou.

The location of the monument is considered "passable" (note 5/10) based on available data, suggesting an average accuracy for the geographic coordinates provided. No additional information is mentioned on the display collections, opening times or modalities of visits, limiting the understanding of its current accessibility or its precise museum role.

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