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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAVOIE

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 248 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SAVOIE , a frontier department of France, formed in 1860 of the old provinces of Haute Savoie, Savoie, the Tarentaise and the Maurienne, which constituted the southern portion of the duchy of Savoy. It is bounded N. by the department of Haute Savoie, E. and S.E. by
Italy
 , S.W. by the department of the Hautes Alpes, and W. by those of the Isere and the Ain. Pop. (1901) 254,781; area 2224 sq. m. It is mainly made up of the basin of the Isere. The upper course of that river flows through the Tarentaise, receiving (right) the Arly and later (left) the Arc, which flows through the Maurienne, which is to a large extent traversed by the Mont Cenis railway. Probably the Isere formerly communicated with the Rhone past
Chambery
  and the Lac du Bourget. The sources of the Isere and of the Arc are separated by the
ridge
  of the Col du Mont Iseran (9085 ft.). The loftiest points in the department are the Grande Casse (12,668 ft.), the culminating summit of the Vanoise group, the Mont Pourri (12,428 ft.), the Pointe de Charbonel (12,336 ft.), the Aiguille de la Grande Sassiere (12,323 ft.), the Dent Parrachee (12,179 ft.), the Levanna (11,943 ft.) and the Aiguilles d'Arves (11,529 ft.). A small portion of the department (including both shores of the Lac du Bourget) is in the
part
  of the duchy of Savoy neutralized in 1815. It is divided into 4 arrondissements (
Chambery
 , the
chief
  town, Albertville, Moutiers-Tarentaise, and St
Jean
  de Maurienne), 29 cantons and 329 communes. It forms the dioceses of Chambery (an archbishopric), Moutiers and St
Jean
  de Maurienne. The best place known to foreigners is Aix les Bains (q.v.), while other
sulphur
  springs rise at Marlioz and at Challes, those of
Salins
  being saline, and those of Brides (the best known after Aix) alkaline.
See J. J. Vernier, Dictionnaire topographique du dep. de la Savoie (Chambery, 1897). (W. A. B. C.)


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