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unusual facts about Gresse-en-Vercors


Grand Veymont

The Grand Veymont (Le Grand Veymont), a mountain in the district of Gresse-en-Vercors, part of the department of Isère, France, is the highest point (2341 metres) of the Massif du Vercors, but not the highest of the Vercors Regional Natural Park (which is the Rocher Rond at 2453m).


CS Sovereign

1992 – SAT-2 (CS Vercors laid the cable from Melkbosstrand to the first branching unit; CS Sovereign laid the remainder)

Émile Paganon

The family lived in the French district Vercors, when he served as a ski reconnaissance platoon leader in the 6th Bataillon de chasseurs alpins in Gresse from 1941 to 1943 during World War II.

Les Animaux dénaturés

Les animaux dénaturés is a 1952 novel by Jean Bruller under his pseudonym Vercors, which was turned into the motion picture Skullduggery, starring Burt Reynolds.

Les Éditions de Minuit

Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea) by co-founder Bruller (who wrote under the pseudonym Vercors) was the first book published (1942).

Lus-la-Croix-Haute

One of their principal vassals and feodal-lords was the family Odde de Bonniot, co-Lords notably of Vercors, chivalrous family originating of the Lus-la-Croix-Haute and its surroundings, which was deplaced to the region of Vivarais, to Orange, and to Velay and to the Netherlands (Holland) during the wars of religion in France.

Michel Sanouillet

Born in 1924 in Montélimar, Drôme, where he completed his public and high school education, Sanouillet joined the French Resistance in the Vercors in 1942.

Polish resistance in France during World War II

In July 1944 one month before the liberation of the Isère, the Polish students of the Lycée of Villard-de-Lans took part in combat against the Germans alongside the French resistance on the plateau of the Vercors.

Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage

Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage is located next to the mountain of Connex and between the Vercors and Taillefer.

Saint-Pol-Roux

It was under this title that he was a dedicatee of André Breton's Clair de Terre (also dedicated to "ceux qui comme lui s'offrent le magnifique plaisir de se faire oublier (sic)", or "those who like him offered themselves the great pleasure of making themselves forgotten"), and Vercors's Le Silence de la mer ( calling him "le poète assassiné", or "the assassinated poet").

Vercors

Vercors Cave System, a set of long caves in the Alps of South-Eastern France

Maquis du Vercors, a section of the French Resistance to the Germans and Vichy régime during World War II, active in the district

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


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