International audienceThe military, political, administrative, social, cultural and religious activities, but also the management of natural resources, especially hunting, on both sides of the Western Alps were strongly influenced by the millenary presence of the house of Savoy. One may first consider the royal patents issued in 1821 for the protection of the Alpine ibex. In the early 1860s, King Vittorio Emanuele II created Alpine Game Reserves around the Gran Paradiso massif and in the Maritime Alps. The image of the Roi Chasseur attained epic dimensions and the presence of the Italian sovereigns in the said valleys had a great socio-economic impact. Hundreds of miles of trails mayors and parish priests, a secure salary for gamekeepers an...
During the Middle Ages, the relationship between the neighbour principalities of Dauphiné and Savoy ...
Abstract : Ill-informed locals or enlightened tourists - On the moral ownership of the natural envir...
L’agromanie des Lumières n’a sans doute pas eu, dans le progrès aux champs, le rôle qui lui est parf...
International audienceThe military, political, administrative, social, cultural and religious activi...
International audienceAt the end of the sixteenth century, duke Charles-Emmanuel I hoped to turn Sav...
International audienceThe statue of King Victor Emmanuel I, built in 1886 in the public gardens of A...
Located between Grenoble and Briançon, the Oisans is a mountain range belonging to the lands of the ...
Hedonists and asce-tics, «latin » and » «northern » people hunting the chamois in the Italian Alps. ...
Since Antiquity, the European mountains were dreaded and avoided by travelers who had to go through ...
International audienceThe House of Savoy – the Alpine dynasty par excellence – has been closely asso...
Abstract. — The french mountains, Alps particularly, are not perceived in the same way by the geogra...
From Nice to the Lake of Geneva, the impossible «invention » of the region of French Alps. Further ...
International audienceDuring the second half of the 19th century, the growth of mountaineering in Eu...
During the Middle Ages, the relationship between the neighbour principalities of Dauphiné and Savoy ...
Abstract : Ill-informed locals or enlightened tourists - On the moral ownership of the natural envir...
L’agromanie des Lumières n’a sans doute pas eu, dans le progrès aux champs, le rôle qui lui est parf...
International audienceThe military, political, administrative, social, cultural and religious activi...
International audienceAt the end of the sixteenth century, duke Charles-Emmanuel I hoped to turn Sav...
International audienceThe statue of King Victor Emmanuel I, built in 1886 in the public gardens of A...
Located between Grenoble and Briançon, the Oisans is a mountain range belonging to the lands of the ...
Hedonists and asce-tics, «latin » and » «northern » people hunting the chamois in the Italian Alps. ...
Since Antiquity, the European mountains were dreaded and avoided by travelers who had to go through ...
International audienceThe House of Savoy – the Alpine dynasty par excellence – has been closely asso...
Abstract. — The french mountains, Alps particularly, are not perceived in the same way by the geogra...
From Nice to the Lake of Geneva, the impossible «invention » of the region of French Alps. Further ...
International audienceDuring the second half of the 19th century, the growth of mountaineering in Eu...
During the Middle Ages, the relationship between the neighbour principalities of Dauphiné and Savoy ...
Abstract : Ill-informed locals or enlightened tourists - On the moral ownership of the natural envir...
L’agromanie des Lumières n’a sans doute pas eu, dans le progrès aux champs, le rôle qui lui est parf...