Chaumont was an important garrison town, home to the 13th military division.
After the 1870 war, a large infantry barracks was built to the north of the hospital, at the end of the Avenue du Fort Lambert, opposite the Chaumont le Bois estate. The 109th infantry regiment occupied the barracks from 1877 until the Great War. Its flag bears the names of the victories won during the Revolution and the First Empire. The 109th's barracks is also known as Damrémont, after the Chaumont-born general who conquered Constantine in 1837. After 1947, the buildings became home to the oldest gendarmerie school in France.
It was also the headquarters of General Pershing's American forces during the First World War. A plaque on the school wall commemorates this period.
Only visible from the street.
Ecole de Gendarmerie
