The Fort de Joux or Château de Joux is a castle, later transformed into a fort, located in La Cluse-et-Mijoux in the Doubs department in the Jura Mountains of France. It commands the mountain pass Cluse de Pontarlier.
The Fort de Joux
Château de Joux
Death of General Toussaint Louverture in the prison of Fort de Joux in France, on 27 April 1803
The Fort de Joux has dominated the main road between France and Switzerland for centuries
Doubs is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019. Its prefecture is Besançon and subprefectures are Montbéliard and Pontarlier.
Prefecture building in Besançon
The citadel and the old town of Besançon in a meander of the Doubs
Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
Montbéliard