{{Redirect|Caserne|or|Caserne Vauban|the Versailles installation|Caserne d'Artois|Mauritian politician|Ludovic Caserne}}{{Short description|Military barracks in a garrison town}} thumb|Caserne St-Henri, Montreal A '''casern''', also spelled '''cazern''' or '''caserne''', is a military barracks in a garrison town.<ref>Les gens de guerre à Saint-Julien-du-Sault, J Crédé, Imprimerie Fostier, 1976 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> In French-speaking countries, a ''caserne de pompier'' is a fire station.
In fortification, caserns are little rooms, lodgments, or apartments, erected between the ramparts, and the houses of fortified towns, or even on the ramparts themselves; to serve as lodgings for the soldiers of the garrison, to ease the garrison, in Portugal and Brazil "Quartel" (derived for 4 faces).
There are usually two beds in each casern, for six soldiers to lie, who mount the guard alternately; the third part being always on duty.
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