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32 unusual facts about Savoie


Abondance

Abondance, Haute-Savoie, a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in the Rue neuve des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache.

Adventist University of France – Collonges

Collonges-sous-Salève, the village where the campus is located, is situated in the French département of Haute-Savoie, named "Upper Savoy" for its location in the foothills of the Alps mountain range.

Agglomeration community of Annemasse – Les Voirons

Annemasse - Les Voirons is an intercommunal structure located in Haute-Savoie, France.

The establishment of annemassienne agglomeration favors the assintence between the communes in Haute-Savoie department.

Anthoine Lussier

Anthoine Lussier (born 8 February 1983 in Bonneville) is a professional French ice hockey player who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France National men's ice hockey team.

Arbin

Arbin, Savoie, a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Bernard Bosquier

Bernard Bosquier (born 19 June 1942 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie) is a former French international footballer who played as a defender.

Cath Palug

Another tradition of unknown origin associates it with the Mont du Chat in the Savoie region of France, near Lake Geneva, where Arthur was defeated by the Cat in a battle fought in a swamp near that mountain.

CEVA rail

CEVA is the name given to a project to connect the main Swiss railway line into Geneva from the rest of Switzerland to the at present isolated link out of Geneva Eaux Vives station to Annemasse Haute-Savoie, (France).

Château Bayard

In 1865, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, a priest of Grignon, arranged the remains of the castle as a residence for his retirement by repairing part of the masonry as well as possible, with the assistance of the legal owner.

Château de La Bâtie-Seyssel

The chapel dates from the 15th century and houses Roman mosaics from the 4th century, discovered at Arbin.

Châtel, Haute-Savoie

Other attractions over the summer months include numerous activities such as windsurfing and sailing (on nearby Lake Geneva), white-water rafting, kayaking, paragliding, walking or simply relaxing in the sun.

Choisy, Haute-Savoie

It lies between "les petites Usses" brook on the west side at an altitude of 390 m, and the Mandallaz mountain on the east side.

Col du Corbier

Col du Corbier is a French Alpine pass located in Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France between the towns of Le Biot and Bonnevaux (Haute-Savoie).

Dufaux 4

The Dufaux brothers concluded that the field chosen was too small to give the aircraft enough room to build up speed for takeoff, so they selected a new location for their tests in Viry, in neighbouring France.

Entremont

Entremont, Haute-Savoie, a municipality of the Haute-Savoie département in France

Ernest Failloubaz

With this aircraft Failloubaz participated at the flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie, in August 1910 and dared what no one else had ever attempted before: Stopping the engine in flight, gliding and restarting his engine.

François Bonivard

He was the son of Louis Bonivard, Seigneur de Lunes, and was born at Seyssel into an old family of Savoy.

French cartography

The departments of Savoy, Haute-Savoie and part of the Maritime Alps were not part of the Kingdom of France at the time, and are not represented on the map; neither are the islands of Yeu and Corsica.

Install Party des Savoie

During a day, people from Pays de Savoie, which is both Savoie and Haute-Savoie departements, is welcomed to get familiar with a new desktop environment, GNU/Linux, renowned for its ability to be reliable and virus-free.

Jerôme Courtailler

Jerôme Courtailler was born in Bonneville, France.

Joseph de Maistre

His mother's family, whose surname was Desmotz, were from Rumilly.

L'Art de Vivre

After the end of the first world war, she was delivered along the north and west coasts of France and taken to Rochefort in the River Charente estuary.

La Rosière

La Rosière, Savoie, a ski resort in the French commune of Montvalezan

Lorette, Manitoba

The church is surmounted by three bells, which were poured in Haute-Savoie, France.

Masque d’Or

Established in 1982, the Masque d’Or – Grand Prix (Grand Prize) is jointly organized by the FNCTA and the Charles Dullin Association in Savoie, France.

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).

Prince Maurice of Savoy

On 4 June 1627 he became the abbot of the monastery at Abondance and in 1637, on the death of his elder brother Victor Amadeus I, he and his brother Thomas claimed the regency of the duchy against Victor Amadeus's widow Christine Marie of France, but the king supported Christine and confirmed her as regent.

René Grandjean

Immediately repaired, his aircraft was in August 1919 damaged again by Georges Cailler during a flight meeting in Viry, Haute-Savoie.

Saint-Narcisse, Quebec

In 1894, following a meeting of parishioners, the factory has made purchasing a system with four bells chime (bigger than the previous ones) made in Haute-Savoie, France, that is their teintement heard in the distance by the parishioners.

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.


Alfred Vaucher

Vaucher also taught at Saleve Adventist University, Collonges-sous-Salève, Haute-Savoie, a French biblical college, from 1921-1941 and 1945-1983.

Battle of Méribel

The Battle of Méribel took place at Méribel, above Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, France, on 13 September 1793, when the forces of the Duchy of Savoy were defeated by the French Army.

Borvo

Many of the sites where offerings to Borvo have been found are in Gaul: inscriptions to him have been found in Drôme at Aix-en-Diois, Bouches-du-Rhône at Aix-en-Provence, Gers at Auch, Allier at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Saône-et-Loire at Bourbon-Lancy, in Savoie at Aix-les-Bains, Haute-Marne at Bourbonne-les-Bains and in Nièvre at Entrains-sur-Nohain.

CAMIVA

CAMIVA, an initialism for Constructeurs Associés de Matériels d'Incendie, Voirie et Aviation, (English for Associated Constructors of Fire Equipment, Roads and Aviation) is a French company which specializes in equipment for fire and rescue founded in 1970, near Chambéry, in Saint-Alban-Leysse in the department of Savoie, France.

Colette Alliot-Lugaz

Born in Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe, she began her musical studies in Bonneville (Haute Savoie), and later in Geneva, with Magda Fonay-Besson.

Dutch-Paris

Jean Weidner was born to Dutch parents in the vicinity of the Swiss-French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a place in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Édouard-Jean Empain

The rendezvous set by the kidnappers was to take place two days later at Megève, a winter resort in Haute-Savoie.

Gabrielle Weidner

She grew up in Switzerland, close to the French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a village in the French department of Haute-Savoie where her father, Johan Henry Weidner Sr. taught Latin and Greek at the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Georges Gimel

On January 21, 1962, a sunny Sunday, he died suddenly while ice skating with a young woman at the skating rink at Megève (Haute-Savoie).

Guiers

Saint-Genix-sur-Guiers, a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes, France

Guy Savoie

Savoie first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1973, campaigning as a Liberal in Brandon West.

Hauts-Forts

The Hauts-Forts (2,466 m) is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located east of Morzine in the French department of Haute-Savoie, within one kilometre of the Swiss border.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

L'Épine

Chaîne de l'Épine, a mountain ridge in the department of Savoie, near Chambéry

Laskaris

They maintained the sovereign County of Tenda until 1501 when the last of them, Anna Lascaris, married Renato of Savoy (in French René de Savoie) and transferred the County to his cadet branch of Savoy dynasty.

Laurent Chappis

Chappis is also credited along with the architect Denis Pradelle with creating a modern, functional style of mountain architecture which rejected both traditional Savoie styles and the Tyrolean chalet style of architecture.

Lullin

The Follaz river goes through the town before flowing into the Brevon River which flows into the Dranse River which eventually flows into the Lac Léman or Lake Geneva.

Mont Malamot

Currently entirely included in French territory, it separates the valleys of Dora Riparia and Arc.

Nicky Savoie

Nicky John Savoie (born on September 21, 1973 in Cut Off, Louisiana) is a former American football tight end who has a one year career in the National Football League.

Patrice Guers

Patrice Guers (born 5 September 1969 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire.

Roc d'Enfer

The Roc d'Enfer (2,244 m) is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Morzine in the French department of Haute-Savoie.

Saint-Geoire-en-Valdaine

Similarly, John Berger, the English Booker prize winning writer, makes his home in nearby Quincy, Haut Savoie, which also figures in his works.

Théophile Pépin

Born in Cluses, Haute-Savoie, he became a Jesuit in 1846, and from 1850 to 1856 and from 1862 to 1871 he was Professor of Mathematics at various Jesuit colleges.

Verel

Verel-Pragondran and Verel-de-Montbel, two communes in the Savoie department, Rhône-Alpes region, France

Virginie Guyot

She was assigned to the Mirage F1-CR in the Escadron de reconnaissance 2/33 Savoie.