Le Môle () is a mountain of the
Chablais Alps in the
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie () is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Gene ...
department of France which dominates the area around the town of
Bonneville. The communes of
Ayze,
La Tour,
Saint-Jean-de-Tholome,
Marignier,
Saint-Jeoire-en-Faucigny,
Viuz-en-Sallaz,
Peillonnex, and
Faucigny 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 to the south and the west from the vallée du Giffre to the north and southeast, and dominates the southern entrance to the
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ...
basin.
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( , ; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of science fiction# ...
, in her 1818 novel ''
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'', 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