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6 unusual facts about French Alps


Anaïs Lameche

Anaïs Helena Kretz Lameche (born 19 August 1987 in French Alps, France) is an original member of the Swedish pop group Play.

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence

The main altar is built of Verde Issoire, a green marble quarried in the French Alps.

Into Great Silence

It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains).

La Nativité du Seigneur

The work was written by the composer at the age of 27 years during the summer of 1935 while he was in residence at Grenoble near the French Alps.

Saint Ange

In 1958, Anna, a young cleaning woman, is sent to spruce up the abandoned St. Ange orphanage in the French Alps region.

Salomon Snowboards

Marketing for Salomon Snowboards is based in Portland, Oregon, near Mt. Hood, while design and development takes place at the base of the French Alps, in Annecy, France.


Augustin de La Balme

Augustin Mottin was born 28 August 1733, in the French Alps near Saint-Antoine, the son of a tanner.

Colorado Gold Kings

They also were the American representatives in the 1990 Tournoi du Mont-Blanc, a traditional tournament played around Christmas in several French Alps resorts.

Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis

The Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis is a rock formation in Pontis, near Embrun in the French Alps, located on the edge of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

Route des Grandes Alpes

The Route des Grandes Alpes is a tourist itinerary through the French Alps between Lake Geneva and the French Riviera passing over all the high passes of the Alps within France.

Sophie the Giraffe

The toy has been made in France (as Sophie la Girafe) since 1961, first in Asnières-sur-Oise, near Paris, by Delacoste, then from 1991 by Vulli, based in Rumilly in the French Alps.

Volodymir Gustov

After being selected for the 2008 Tour de France team, he worked for the two Schleck brothers and Carlos Sastre as the race got into the French Alps and Pyrenees.


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Andrew Maxwell

In 2008 he and fellow comedian Marcus Brigstocke founded the Altitude Festival, a comedy/music festival in Meribel, The French Alps.

Angeles Crest Highway

The Angeles Crest Highway is also used extensively in the motion picture The Love Bug for racing scenes, as well as in the sequel film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, where the highway doubles for "The French Alps".

Aumism

Centered on the "holy city" of Mandarom, near Castellane in the French Alps, it has approximately 400 members, down from 1200 at its peak.

Cenomanian

An official reference profile for the base of the Cenomanian (a GSSP) is located in an outcrop at the western flank of Mont Risou, near the village of Rosans in the French Alps (département Hautes-Alpes, coordinates: 44°23'33"N, 5°30'43"E).

Elvin Bale

Elvin performed in the Vatican for Pope John Paul II, under helicopters in the French Alps, and at African soccer stadiums.

Hannah Dee

Before employment at Aberystwyth, she accepted a one year post doctorate position working in Grenoble (in the French alps).

Jacques Herbrand

In July of that year he was mountain-climbing in the French Alps with two friends when he fell to his death in the granite mountains of Massif des Écrins.

Mandy Jones

She rode the world road race championship for Britain in 1980, when she was 18, and took the bronze medal behind the American Beth Heiden on a tough circuit at Sallanches, in the French Alps.

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Storm over Mont Blanc

Meteorologist Hannes (Sepp Rist) works alone at a remote weather station below the summit of Mont Blanc in the French Alps.

Vercors

Vercors Plateau, a range of mountains and plateaus in the department of Isère, French Alps