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    (collective), Histoire du Valais, Annales valaisannes 2000–2001, Société d'histoire du Valais romand, Sion, 2002. (fr) (collective), Vallis poenina, le Valais à l'époque...
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    Valais Monster (French: Monstre du Valais), also known as Eischoll Wolf, and Mysterious animal of Leuk (French: Animal mystérieux de la Loèche), is the...
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    Lower Valais, declared as the short lived (16 March to 1 May 1798) République du Valais, which was in turn incorporated as the canton of Valais of the...
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    32 sq mi) of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty percent (234.71 km2 or 90.62 sq mi) to France (the department...
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    requested a concession from the Valais Council of States for a Villeneuve - Aosta railway. The concession was refused, and the Valais government requested the...
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    three-kilometre-long mountain range in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Overlooking the Val d'Illiez and the Rhône valley to the south...
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    2013. "History Museum of Valais, Sion". Musées Cantonaux du Valais. 2013. The Rhone Culture originated from Central Valais and the Thun area ... The...
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    declaration in favor of attrition. Bremond, Henri, S.J. (1915). Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion...
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    Simplon Railway led to significant economic progress in the Valais. On 1 July 1881, the Compagnie du Simplon was bought by the Western Swiss Railways, which...
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    in the cantons of Valais, Bern, and Fribourg, French speakers forming the majority of the population in the regions of Lower Valais, Bernese Jura and...
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  • Droit du Peuple became the de facto socialist organ in Bas-Valais as well. When the Swiss Socialist Party split in 1939, Le Travail and Le Droit du Peuple...
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  • du Valais, Bulletin de la Murithiènne 37: 10 pp., 1 fig (1911); with Denis Cruchet and Eugéne Mayor. Contribution à l’étude des champignons du Valais. Bull...
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  • p. 117 Roger Francillon, Histoire de la littérature en Suisse romande, vol. 4, p. 441 Sabine Leyat, Les auteurs du Valais romand 1975-2002, p. 67 Jean-François...
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    (French: Rocher des Fées) are located in the municipality of Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland, between Mollens and Aminona, more precisely in a rock face...
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  • (HLS) Sources: Tobias Bauer (1989), Alusuisse 1888-1988: une histoire coloniale en Valais et dans le monde (German edition: Silbersonne am horizont) (in...
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    Pays-d'Enhaut, Vaud east), 4. Valaisan (Valais, Valaisan Romand). Valdôtain: (Aosta Valley, Italy) 1. Valdôtain du Valdigne (Dora Baltea upper valley, similar...
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  • witchcraft. She is one of the most well documented of the victims of the Valais witch trials. Her case was one of the first in the Pays de Vaud. Catherine...
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    Matterhorn (category Mountains of Valais)
    embracing three different cultures: the German-speaking high Valais, the French-speaking central Valais and the bilingual French/Italian-speaking Aosta Valley...
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  • Julliard (2005). Histoire de France des régions: la périphérie française des origines à nos jours. Points (in French). Éditions du Seuil. p. 161....
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    29 July 2020. Demagny, Xavier (25 August 2018). "VIDÉO - Histoires criminelles : l'Ordre du temple solaire, 16 membres d'une secte retrouvés morts en...
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    Switzerland Engelberg Andermatt Eastern Switzerland Appenzell Wildhaus Valais Aletsch Verbier Crans-Montana Saas-Fee Zermatt Vaud Leysin Bernese Oberland...
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    Mediterranean for centuries. It rises as the effluent of the Rhône Glacier in Valais, Switzerland, in the Saint-Gotthard massif, at an altitude of 1753 m. It...
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    Retrieved 4 August 2021. Marcelle Dalloni, Au coeur du Valais chrétien: Les soeurs de St-Maurice en Valais (Fribourg: Imprimerie Saint-Paul, 1952), p. 103-104...
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  • (2001), "Histoire de la bureaucratie et scepticisme", Pour une histoire de la bureaucratie en France, Institut de la gestion publique et du développement...
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    Bernard Valley near Gignod and rises to Collon Pass, which it shares with Valais, and which is located at the foot of the Grand Combin, whose peak is across...
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    République des Sept Dizains was converted to a revolutionary République du Valais (16 March 1798) which was swiftly incorporated (1 May 1798) into the puppet...
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    lʹindependance du Haut-Vallais et conquête du Bas-Vallais, 1844 – Development concerning the independence of Haut-Valais and the conquest of Bas-Valais. Documents...
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    A., Berne, 1958. (in French) Schüle, Ernest, Histoire linguistique de la Vallée d'Aoste, dans Bulletin du Centre d'Études francoprovençales n° 22, Imprimerie...
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    the north, the cantons of Fribourg and Bern to the east, the canton of Valais to the south, the canton of Geneva to the south-west, and France to the...
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    Tourbillon Castle (category Castles in the canton of Valais)
    Castle (French: Château de Tourbillon) is a castle in Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is situated on a hill and faces the Basilique de Valère...
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