Foret de Montmorency - Chemin de l Entonnoir

Saint-Prix () is a French

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located in the

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department, in the

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region. Its inhabitants are called Saint-Prissians. The commune is located 15 km to the north of

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, on the southern flank of the vast butte-témoin bearing the forest of Montmorency. It overlooks the Montmorency valley. The Hellenist, epigrapher and archaeologist Bernard Haussoullier (1852–1926) died in Saint-Prix.

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