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7 unusual facts about Vercors Plateau


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.

Geyssans

There is also a very clear view, on a good day, on the Rhone valley and the Vercors Plateau.

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.

Vercors

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



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