The Place du Colonel Fabien (in English: "Colonel Fabien Square") is a square in Paris, France. Before the

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, the square was called the ''Place du Combat'', but it was renamed in honour of the French communist resistance hero, Pierre Georges, whose ''

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'' was ''Colonel Fabien''. The headquarters of the French Communist Party, designed by the Brazilian

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and utilitarian architect Oscar Niemeyer, is located here, as is

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of the Paris Métro. Nearby is the former location of the medieval Gibbet of Montfaucon, a multi-tiered gibbet that was for most of its history outside the city walls of Paris.

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Colonel Fabien Pierre Georges (21 January 1919 – 27 December 1944), better known as ''Colonel Fabien'', was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Occupation of France durin ...

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