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    Val-de-Chaise (French pronunciation: [val də ʃɛz]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France...
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    1 January 2016 it was merged with Marlens to create the new commune Val-de-Chaise. Its population was 393 in 2019. Communes of the Haute-Savoie department...
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    2016 it was merged with Cons-Sainte-Colombe to create the new commune Val-de-Chaise. There's a popular paragliding site on the hillside to the north of...
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    will be the fifth in the Folie Douce chain, which started in Val d'Isère and then spread to Val Thorens, Méribel and Alpe d'Huez. Megève's Alpine skiing area...
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    Comité de préservation du village des Houches – Dossier publié le 12/05/2004[permanent dead link] (PDF) Site de l'association de défense des usagers de l'A40...
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    United Kingdom and King Farouk of Egypt, and celebrities such as countess Anna de Noailles and Marcel Proust. The springs of Evian were still rather unknown...
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    Annecy (redirect from Palais de l'Isle)
    Reformation in Geneva, while the bishop took refuge in Annecy. Saint Francis de Sales gave Annecy its advanced Catholic citadel role known as Counter-Reformation...
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    river Borne. Nearby villages include Manigod, Thônes, La Clusaz, Saint-Jean-de-Sixt and the larger Chamonix and Annecy. 1569: Church fire 1715: Opening of...
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    Sillingy (74272) Talloires-Montmin (74275) Thônes (74280) Thusy (74283) Val-de-Chaise (74167) Vallières-sur-Fier (74289) Vaulx (74292) Versonnex (74297) Veyrier-du-Lac...
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    mountaineer. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize for Physics, came to study and teach at the Physics School of Les Houches (l'École de Physique des Houches)...
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