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in which they were held, as if I had been good for nothing better."

After a year at the École Royale, Monge was asked to produce a défilement plan for a fortification in such a way as to optimise its defensive arrangement. In military terminology, défilement is "the science of aligning the summits of fortifications in a vertical plane, so as to evade gunfire from a height outside the fortress".

A fort should protect the defenders. That is, from any point on the terrain outside,

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