François Denhaut (1877–1952), an early French aviator & engineer, died here.
The passage created by the Rhône is the principal access to the area around Gex and the north of Lake Geneva.
It will link the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, the valley of the Arve to St Gervais and Chamonix and from Annemasse to Annecy.
Since then, the passenger service has been replaced by a TER bus service from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine to Divonne-les-Bains.
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The only traffic on the line is a twice weekly household waste train from Chevry to the SIDEFAGE incinerator south of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine.
Divonne used to have a railway, linking it to Gex and Bellegarde on the French side and to Nyon and Geneva on the Swiss side.
Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."
Perte-du-Rhône (Loss of the Rhone) is a sixty-metre-deep geologic fault north of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine in France, into which the Rhone River used to disappear during the dry season.
The Geneva RER or Rhône Express Regional is a commuter railway service which runs between Geneva Cornavin Station, Switzerland (where it mostly uses the dedicated Platform 5) and La Plaine (Swiss terminus) and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine in France.
Bellegarde-sur-Valserine | Fort de Bellegarde | Bellegarde | Roger de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde | Dantès Bellegarde |
He was born about 1315 in the Castle of Grizac, now located in the commune of Le Pont-de-Montvert, the son of William de Grimoard, Lord of Bellegarde, and of Amphélise de Montferrand.
The Château de Bellegarde is a 14th-century château located at Lamonzie-Montastruc in Dordogne in France.
He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.
The introduction of TGV services to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine on 22 September 1981, the completion of the autoroutes from Lyon to Geneva and the opening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel all greatly improved access to Bellegarde, enabling the town to develop through industrial restructuring which allowed Bellegarde to maintain unemployment below the national average.
He married twice, to Marie Bellegarde (daughter of his next door neighbor, Dantès Bellegarde) and Julie Bartoli but left no children from either wife.