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    Val-de-Chaise (French pronunciation: [val də ʃɛz]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France...
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    2016 it was merged with Cons-Sainte-Colombe to create the new commune Val-de-Chaise. There's a popular paragliding site on the hillside to the north of...
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    1 January 2016 it was merged with Marlens to create the new commune Val-de-Chaise. Its population was 393 in 2019. Communes of the Haute-Savoie department...
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    will be the fifth in the Folie Douce chain, which started in Val d'Isère and then spread to Val Thorens, Méribel and Alpe d'Huez. Megève's Alpine skiing area...
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    Comité de préservation du village des Houches – Dossier publié le 12/05/2004[permanent dead link] (PDF) Site de l'association de défense des usagers de l'A40...
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    United Kingdom and King Farouk of Egypt, and celebrities such as countess Anna de Noailles and Marcel Proust. The springs of Evian were still rather unknown...
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    Annecy (redirect from Palais de l'Isle)
    Reformation in Geneva, while the bishop took refuge in Annecy. Saint Francis de Sales gave Annecy its advanced Catholic citadel role known as Counter-Reformation...
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    the spelling evolved with apud Salanciam (1212), Salenchia (1339) or Cura de Salanchia (1344). The current form seems to have stabilized from the 18th...
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    mountaineer. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize for Physics, came to study and teach at the Physics School of Les Houches (l'École de Physique des Houches)...
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    Information". Holiday in Alps. Retrieved 30 July 2018. Tian, de Oriane (2019-04-24). "De nouveaux investissements à Saint-Gervais". Saint-Gervais domaine...
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    Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Communauté de communes de la Vallée Verte Communauté de communes des Vallées de Thônes BANATIC, Périmètre...
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    not Thonon-Les-Bains. Arboretum de Ripaille Château des Guillet-Monthoux Château de Ripaille Château de Sonnaz Château de Thuyset Saint-Hippolyte church...
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    field”. Nearby villages include Manigod, Thônes, Le Grand-Bornand, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt and the larger Chamonix. La Clusaz's main tourist draw is skiing during...
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    d'impact — État initial de l'environnement, dossier de réalisation, « Climatologie d'Annemasse », February 2008. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui:...
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    Yvoire (category Plus Beaux Villages de France)
    northeast of Geneva. Located at the tip of the Leman peninsula (presqu'île de Léman), Yvoire delimits the two main parts of Lake Geneva, the "petit lac"...
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    Morzine has hosted Tour de France stage finishes on several occasions, thanks in part to the proximity of the notoriously steep Col de Joux-Plane climb. Morzine...
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    section of runs on the other side of the Col du Joly in the Val Joly (rather than the Val Montjoie). The run difficulty is varied in this section. The...
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    ramoneurs", (1912) 26 Revue de philologie française et de littérature p 77 (ISSN 1245-5733), Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature...
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    of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023. Unité urbaine 2020 de Sallanches (00465), INSEE Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE Wikimedia...
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    1804 and takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise (1624–1709), who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt during 1682 on the...
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    Thonon-les-Bainssubpr Thusy Thyez La Tour Usinens Vacheresse Vailly Val-de-Chaise Valleiry Vallières-sur-Fier Vallorcine Vanzy Vaulx Veigy-Foncenex Verchaix...
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    Menthon-Saint-Bernard Saint-Ferréol Saint-Jean-de-Sixt Serraval Talloires-Montmin Thônes Val-de-Chaise Veyrier-du-Lac Les Villards-sur-Thônes "Décret...
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    the winter season. In August Chatel celebrates both the Fête de la St Laurent and the Fête de la Belle Dimanche. St Laurent is the patron saint of Châtel...
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    Collectif (1998), Découvrir l'Histoire de la Savoie, Centre de la Culture Savoyarde Dictionnaire d'Amboise. Pays de Savoie. Editions Amboise. 1989. 2e édition...
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    Thonon-les-Bainssubpr Thusy Thyez La Tour Usinens Vacheresse Vailly Val-de-Chaise Valleiry Vallières-sur-Fier Vallorcine Vanzy Vaulx Veigy-Foncenex Verchaix...
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    Thonon-les-Bainssubpr Thusy Thyez La Tour Usinens Vacheresse Vailly Val-de-Chaise Valleiry Vallières-sur-Fier Vallorcine Vanzy Vaulx Veigy-Foncenex Verchaix...
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    the background The church square Place de la Libération, the main square The old water trough at the Place de la Libération L'Escalade residential area...
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    Chamonix. The Aravis Valley from Manigod Église Saint-Pierre Aiguille de Manigod Chapelle de Villard-Dessous Communes of the Haute-Savoie department "Répertoire...
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    villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Cluses, EHESS (in French). Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE "Le comité de jumelage"...
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    Thonon-les-Bainssubpr Thusy Thyez La Tour Usinens Vacheresse Vailly Val-de-Chaise Valleiry Vallières-sur-Fier Vallorcine Vanzy Vaulx Veigy-Foncenex Verchaix...
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