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Mount Raoul Blanchard (french: Mont Raoul-Blanchard) is the highest peak in the
Laurentian Mountains
The Laurentian Mountains ( French: ''Laurentides'') are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of at Mont Raoul Blanchard, northeast of Quebec City in the Laurentid ...
,
Quebec
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,
Canada
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at . It is located in the
La Côte-de-Beaupré RCM, north east of
Quebec City
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and north of Saint-Tite-des-Caps in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides.
The peak is named after
Raoul Blanchard
Raoul Blanchard (4 September 1877 – 24 March 1965) was a French geographer. He taught at the University of Grenoble from 1906 and devoted most of his research to Alpine and Canadian geography.
Early life
The son of an inspector of the Departm ...
(1877-1965), a geographer who had significant interest in the
French Alps
The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as ...
and the mountains of Quebec.
References
Peakbagger
Raoul Blanchard
Raoul Blanchard (4 September 1877 – 24 March 1965) was a French geographer. He taught at the University of Grenoble from 1906 and devoted most of his research to Alpine and Canadian geography.
Early life
The son of an inspector of the Departm ...
Landforms of Capitale-Nationale
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