Le Môle is a mountain of the
Chablais Alps
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in the
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie (; Arpitan: ''Savouè d'Amont'' or ''Hiôta-Savouè''; en, Upper Savoy) or '; it, Alta Savoia. is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its prefecture is ...
department of France which dominates the area around the town of
Bonneville. The communes of
Ayze,
La Tour La Tour may refer to:
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France
* La Tour, Alpes-Maritimes
* La Tour, Haute-Savoie
* La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne
* La Tour-d'Aigues, Vaucluse
* La Tour-d'Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme
* La Tour-de-Salvagny, Rhà ...
,
Saint-Jean-de-Tholome,
Marignier
Marignier () is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Population
Transport
The commune has a railway station, , on the La Roche-sur-Foron–Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet lin ...
,
Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny,
Viuz-en-Sallaz
Viuz-en-Sallaz (; frp, Viu) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France, close to the Swiss border.
It was historically a possession of the noble house of de Faucigny and then passed to Arduti ...
,
Peillonnex
Peillonnex () is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France. It lies north-east of Annecy, the department capital, and some from Paris.
The inhabitants are called ''Peillonnexois''.
Pl ...
, and
Faucigny
Faucigny ( it, Fossigni) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-centr ...
encircle it. It rises to 1,863 metres and affords an excellent 360-degree view of the surrounding region.
Though a small mountain by Alpine standards, it is of great geographic importance as it divides the vallée de l'
Arve
The Arve (french: L'Arve, ) is a river in France (''département'' of Haute-Savoie), and Switzerland (canton of Geneva). A left tributary of the Rhône, it is long, of which 9 km in Switzerland. Its catchment area is , of which 80 km2 ...
to the south and the west from the vallée du Giffre to the north and southeast, and dominates the southern entrance to the
Geneva
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basin.
Mary Shelley
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, in her 1818 novel ''
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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'', quotes Le Môle as being seen by Victor Frankenstein from Geneva, where he was born and lived before being a student in Germany.
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Mountains of Haute-Savoie
Mountains of the Alps