Frederic P Miller

Mont Blanc Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mont Blanc or Monte Bianco (French and Italian, respectively, meaning white mountain) is the highest mountain in the Alps and in Western Europe. It rises 4,810 m (15,781 ft) above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. It is also sometimes known as "La Dame Blanche" (French, the white lady). The mountain lies between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Haute-Savoie, France. The location of the summit is on the French-Italian border but French cartographers place it within France's boundaries on maps. It is claimed by French sources that at a convention between Aloys de Rayneval from France and Domenico Carutti from the Kingdom of Sardinia, in Turin (1861), and in particular on the maps joint to the convention, the border was fixed on the highest point of Mont Blanc. But this was not the last official definition of this border. In fact in the archives of Turin we can find the papers of the time that demonstrates that the highest point of the mountain is in Italy, while the boundaries were changed in 1865 by a french scholar and nationalist, a certain captain Jean-Joseph Mieulet.