Thonon

St Francis may never have met St Philip Neri but he certainly knew his disciples, and even founded a house based on the Oratorian ‘rule’ in Thonon-les-Bains in the Savoy region of South-West France.

Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: His Study (Part 1 of 3) 2009

When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

Chapter 1 2010

Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

Chapter 2 2010

He followed the court in its many peregrinations, to Morges, Turin, Geneva, Chambéry or Thonon.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

The school of the illuminators Jean Bapteur and Perronnet Lamy, based at Thonon, produced the most precious manuscripts for Duke Amadeus VIII or Duchess Yolanda.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

Note 1: Élie Ripon, Voyages et aventures du capitaine Ripon aux grandes Indes: journal inédit d'un mercenaire, 1617 – 1627, ed. Yves Giraud (Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie: Éditions de l'Albaron, 1990), 104 – 5.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Yves Giraud (Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie: Éditions de l'Albaron, 1990), 113. back

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

Note: Cornelius Agrippa 2002

When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004