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IT WAS one of the biggest infrastructure projects in human history.
For much of the 1930s, and at a cost of 3.3 billion francs, France built itself a 900-mile network of tunnels, underground bunkers and concrete gun batteries along much of the Franco-German border. The intention was to protect France from any repeated World War I-style German invasion.
This was the Maginot Line, a colossal (but ultimately futile) piece of engineering the Germans simply bypassed in the war that followed.
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