Originally, at the end of the ice age, the lake extended some 30 km, from Sillingy all the way to the site of Faverges, at the base of the Dent de Cons mountain.
•
Faverges now has several important factories (Stäubli, S.T. Dupont, Bourgeois) providing some 2,500 jobs, which is especially remarkable in that Faverges itself has only some 7,000 inhabitants.
•
The Tamié Abbey was founded in 1132, and Faverges castle around 1250.
His first adult responsibility recorded is the castellany of Faverges in 1353.
Faverges |