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Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
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Le Pelvoux - village de Valberts en Vallouise - btv1b10670442j

Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
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original
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Open-licence photograph
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Ledger AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V00

Le Pelvoux - village de Valberts en Vallouise - btv1b10670442j

Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

Visual description
Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
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original
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Open-licence photograph
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The Archive of Days presentsBeta

BEFORE MODERN SPORT

Puy-Saint-Vincent

How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Puy-Saint-Vincent.

Scroll to read the contour through time

Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise , also known as Besse-en-Chandesse (its official name from 2 April 1961 to 1 July 1973), or Besse (its name before 1961), is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.

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BEFORE TOURISM

Before the resort map

The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Puy-Saint-Vincent before modern tourism.

This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.

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ACCESS CHANGES

A route reaches Puy-Saint-Vincent

The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Puy-Saint-Vincent.

This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.

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Piste du clos d'aval à Puy-Saint-Vincent
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Piste le clos d'aval, Puy Saint Vincent

Piste du clos d'aval à Puy-Saint-Vincent. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Piste du clos d'aval à Puy-Saint-Vincent
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Open-licence photograph
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Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Ledger AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V01

Piste le clos d'aval, Puy Saint Vincent

Piste du clos d'aval à Puy-Saint-Vincent. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

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Piste du clos d'aval à Puy-Saint-Vincent
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Open-licence photograph
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Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

1960

Winter becomes organised

Élisabeth Chaud (born 7 December 1960 in Puy-Saint-Vincent) is a French retired alpine skier who competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics.

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THE LIVING MAP

The mapped place

Puy-Saint-Vincent is recorded at 44.832° N, 6.480° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,700 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.

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Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
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Ledger AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V00

Le Pelvoux - village de Valberts en Vallouise - btv1b10670442j

Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

Visual description
Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
Nature
original
Medium
Open-licence photograph
Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Ledger AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V00

Le Pelvoux - village de Valberts en Vallouise - btv1b10670442j

Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.

Visual description
Sujet : Puy-Saint-Vincent Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Langue : français
Nature
original
Medium
Open-licence photograph
Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

TODAY

Puy-Saint-Vincent now

Puy-Saint-Vincent remains a lived-in place as well as a sporting destination.

Its present identity continues to depend on the relationship between residents, visitors, access and the landscape or water that first shaped it.

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THE LEDGER

Sources and credits

This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.

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Artefacts in order of appearance

  • Le Pelvoux - village de Valberts en Vallouise - btv1b10670442j

    AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

  • Piste le clos d'aval, Puy Saint Vincent

    AOD.EU.PUY-SAINT-VINCENT.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Editorial record

Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.