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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 248 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAVOIE , a frontier See also:

department of See also:France, formed in 1860 of the old provinces of Haute Savoie, Savoie, the Tarentaise and the Maurienne, which constituted the See also:southern portion of the duchy of See also:Savoy. It is bounded N. by the department of Haute Savoie, E. and S.E. by See also:Italy, S.W. by the department of the Hautes Alpes, and W. by those of the See also:Isere and the See also:Ain. Pop. (1901) 254,781; See also:area 2224 sq. m. It is mainly made up of the See also:basin of the Isere. The upper course of that See also:river flows through the Tarentaise, receiving (right) the Arly and later (See also: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 See also:Rhone past See also:Chambery and the See also:Lac du See also:Bourget. The See also:sources of the Isere and of the Arc are separated by the See also:ridge of the See also:Col du Mont Iseran (9085 ft.). The loftiest points in the department are the Grande Casse (12,668 ft.), the culminating See also:summit of the Vanoise See also:group, the Mont Pourri (12,428 ft.), the Pointe de Charbonel (12,336 ft.), the See also: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 See also:part of the duchy of Savoy neutralized in 1815. It is divided into 4 arrondissements (Chambery, the See also:chief See also:town, Albertville, Moutiers-Tarentaise, and St See also:Jean de Maurienne), 29 cantons and 329 communes. It forms the dioceses of Chambery (an archbishopric), Moutiers and St Jean de Maurienne.

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place known to foreigners is See also:Aix See also:les Bains (q.v.), while other See also:sulphur springs rise at Marlioz and at Challes, those of See also:Salins being saline, and those of Brides (the best known after Aix) alkaline. See J. J. See also:Vernier, Dictionnaire topographique du dep. de la Savoie (Chambery, 1897). (W. A. B.

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