Sallanches

Stage 8: July 13, Sallanches to L'Alpe d'Huez, 131 miles (mountain stage) • Recap/results:

USATODAY.com 2003

Next morning took us to Amecameca, a town in a little plain at the foot of Popocatepetl, whose snow-covered top towers high up in the clouds, like Mont Blanc over Sallanches.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

We went to Bonneville to hunt out the point of view of a Turner drawing which Ruskin liked, but, needless to say, though we ransacked the neighborhood for views, we never found Turner's; and then we went on to St. Martin, the little village opposite Sallanches, on the Arve.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

I stood at an elevation of about 7000 feet, halfway to the summit of Mont Blanc, with the whole broad expanse of glacier and snowfield glowing in the rosy twilight; and, while I watched the sun set, at my feet lay the valley of the Arve, with the town of Sallanches and its attendant villages in the blue distance of gathering night, thousands of feet below me.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

The state carriages had to be left at Sallanches when the sovereigns went up to the great ball offered them at Chamounix, and, when they returned, the little mountain carriages which brought them down halted under the windows of the auberge of St. Martin, in which I lived, to wait for the state carriages to come across the river.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

In a few minutes they swept through an avenue of noble trees, and stopped at the doorstep of an inn alive with passengers by the diligence just arrived from Sallanches, on its way to Geneva.

The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

At the bridge between St. Martin and Sallanches the dazzling silver peaks of Mont Blanc, rising above the green pasturage of the Forclaz, abruptly revealed themselves to the travellers, who fancied for the moment that they were close upon the mountain.

The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

Sallanches when the sovereigns went up to the great ball offered them at Chamounix, and, when they returned, the little mountain carriages which brought them down halted under the windows of the _auberge_ of

The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864

We went to Bonneville to hunt out the point of view of a Turner drawing which Ruskin liked, but, needless to say, though we ransacked the neighborhood for views, we never found Turner's; and then we went on to St. Martin, the little village opposite Sallanches, on the Arve.

The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864

Sallanches and its attendant villages in the blue distance of gathering night, thousands of feet below me.

The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864