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Mont-de-Lans Mont-de-Lans () is a former commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Deux Alpes.La Garde in the west which passes through the commune by a tortuous route and continues east to Le Freney-d'Oisans. The D211E branches off the D211A in the commune to go to La Grand Combe. Apart from the village (which is solely the town hall) there is the hamlet of Les Cours to the north and Le Cert and Les Chatains to the south. The commune is rugged with alpine terrain and a large forest to the west of the village (La Forêt).Google Maps
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Romanche The Romanche () is a mountain river in southeastern France. It is a right tributary of the Drac, itself a tributary of the Isère. Its drainage basin is .Drac at Jarrie. The Venéon river flows from the south through the south-western extension of the commune to join the Romanche there.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

The commune is sometimes informally called ''Auris-en-Oisans''.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Aurienchons'' or ''Aurienchonnes'' in French.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

*A Roman bridge *The Rural Museum

Religious heritage

*The Chapel of the Angels (17th century). The Chapel contains several items that are registered as historical objects: **2

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(17th century)Ministry of Culture, Palissy *The Chapel of Saint-Gerald (1497)

Geography