On the Place d'Armes of the Bosquet barracks: north 2501, the Bosquet statue and the flagpole.
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The Bosquet site today
On 15/6/2004, the 12 ha 9 to 89 ca of the Bosquet barracks area were sold by the State to the commune of Mont-de-Marsan (thus, the original site sold by the commune to the State, returned to the municipality 130 years later!) which undertook a public development operation entrusted to SATEL. The site has become, in part, a hub of administrative services with the installation of the House of Commons and House of Unions, the Departmental Archives, the SYDEC, the headquarters of the Marsan Urban Community, the administrative restaurant, the Houses Joëlle-Vincens and Camille-Pédarré made available to associations, etc. On the other hand, a major housing construction program (collective and townhouses) currently underway will bring a new population to this Bosquet district become civilian again.
Finally, since 11/11/2006, the museum of the 34th RI, run by the Amicale du 34e RI, is open Porte des Médaillés Militaires, (495 avenue du Maréchal-Foch), in the former “Solferino” pavilion. » which was the guard post of the Bosquet barracks, a place of memory of a glorious military past.
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