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    Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (French pronunciation: [lə pəti bɔʁnɑ̃ le ɡlijɛʁ]), commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie...
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    and Thorens-Glières by 29 km and 15 km respectively, it is located around the communes of Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières and Thorens-Glières. In the Francoprovençal...
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    develop – the village of Petit-Bornand, located downstream, is in a narrower part of the valley. The commune of Le Grand-Bornand is made-up of three areas:...
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    first printing press in France (Paris) in 1470. He was born at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. He studied in Paris between 1450 and 1454 and then...
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    communes of Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (the seat) and Entremont. Communes of the Haute-Savoie department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in...
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    Lac de Lessy is a lake at Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières in the Haute-Savoie, France. v t e...
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    professor at the Sorbonne, who had also come from abroad: from Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, in Savoy. Heynlin brought Swiss workmen to install this press...
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    Les Houches (French pronunciation: [le.z‿uʃ]; Arpitan: Les Ouches or Les Oucies) is an alpine commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...
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    Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁvɛ le bɛ̃]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern...
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    student and auxiliary doctor for the maquis, who had been arrested at le Grand-Bornand several days earlier. The prisoners were freed but, in spite of the...
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