Hautes Alpes: is a
department in southeastern France named after the Alps mountain range.
Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the
French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It consists of the southeast of the
former province of Dauphiné and the north of Provence. At the time when
the department was created, the two mountain communes of La Grave and
Villar-d'Arêne successfully campaigned to be included in Hautes-Alpes
and not in the neighbouring department of Isère to which they had
originally been assigned. This was because they hoped to benefit from
the relative autonomy and certain fiscal privileges enjoyed by the
region since the fourteenth century under the terms of the Statute of
the Briançon Escartons.
Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes
Hautes Alpes
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