Beaufort-on-Doron

Beaufort , or more exactly Beaufort-on-Doron , is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps. The commune is the capital of the Beaufortain, which owes him its name.

Its inhabitants is called the Beaufortains .

Geography

Beaufort-on-Doron is located in the middle of the solid mass of the Beaufortain, on the doron of Beaufort.

History

The commune bore the name of Luce , Lucia 12th century of the name of a Roman villa. Then it taken the name of the parish at the 13th century, Holy-Maxime. The commune takes the name of Belfort in 1225. Then, it evolves/moves in Villa Sti Maximi vallis Lucie and Apud Sanctum Maximum, in 1308, Castellania Bellifortis in 1334, Saint Maxime of Beaufort in 1738.

The control of the castle is at the origin of tensions between Amédée VI of Savoy and the Count de Genève and of the Dauphiné. The conflict ends with the treated of Paris of 1355 where Beaufort and Beaufortain is allocated to the count Amédée VI.

Beaufortain is set up in baronnie in 1667.

Administration

The commune of Beaufort is made up of two villages, Beaufort and Arêches, like 11 hamlets.

Demography

Places and monuments

the Barrage of Roselend is a concrete work of the type arches going back to 1961. Its height is of 105 m and its length is of 804 Mr. It is one of the four hydro-electric stoppings of the Beaufortain, with the Barrage of Gittaz and the Barrage of Saint-Guerin (1960), which feeds the power station of Bâthie, and that of Girotte.
Ruins of the old castle of the 13th century
Castle of Randens (current town hall) - 16th century

Economy

The population saw mainly tourism (ski and country holidays) and agriculture, mainly the dairy breeding for the production of famous cheese, the Beaufort to which the borough gave its name. The common car also some incomes of the stoppings of Beaufortain.

The village counts a field of ski touring. The village of Arêches is attached to him. It is the starting point of a Ski station Arêches-Beaufort.

In a recent way, with the image of many Savoyard villages, Beaufort was touched by the phenomenon of rurbanisation. More and more from people, fleeing the prohibitive prices of the big cities, come to settle there. One thus finds inhabitants who work with Chambéry (50 min by highway), Annecy (1 H) or even Grenoble (1. 20).

Events

October: cross-country race of the college.

Personalities related to the commune

Lucien Lawyer (1925-2006), doctor and mayor
Alain Bar (1947-), engraver
Roger Clipping-Rock (1906-1999), explorer and writer French.
German Felix (1904-), teacher and writer. Member of the Academy of Savoy.

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