Fessole
The place
Fessole in the Vercors Regional Nature Park, Villard-de-Lans/Corrençon-en-Vercors area (Isère/Drôme border, France), at 1425 m elevation, Vercors plateau. Continuous France Vercors cluster (batches 220-358). Pastoral cabin or forest shelter ("Fessole" a dialectal Franco-Provençal name), area of beech-fir forest of the Vercors and the Hauts-Plateaux du Vercors Nature Reserve (17,000 ha, France's largest forested nature reserve) + the Vercors Resistance (June-July 1944, 4000 maquisards crushed under Ferdinand Miksche, 700 deaths, massacres at Vassieux-en-Vercors, a memorial cemetery + French Forces of the Interior FFI, Charles de Gaulle in Algiers, the 1944 liberation, André Malraux as minister) + chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica pyrenaica reintroduced in 1954, population of 2500 + golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos.
The setting
Vercors Regional Nature Park Villard-de-Lans/Corrençon Isère/Drôme France 1425 m plateau, continuous cluster batches 220-358, Fessole pastoral cabin Franco-Provençal, beech-fir forest Hauts-Plateaux Nature Reserve 17,000 ha France's largest forested reserve + Resistance June-July 1944 4000 maquisards Miksche 700 deaths Vassieux + FFI Charles de Gaulle Algiers 1944 liberation Malraux minister + Rupicapra pyrenaica reintroduced 1954 2500 + Aquila chrysaetos.
