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A History of Savoy Gatekeeper of the Alps Author:John Dormandy Language:English Format:Hardcover Dimensions:6.15" x 9.25" Pages:368 Photos:B&W Publisher:Fonthill Media ISBN:9781781556870 Item No. 9781781556870 Savoy and its Alps were for seven centuries an independent state at the centre of Europe, separating France from the patchwork of principalities that made up Italy. Merchants, clerics, pilgrims, diplomats as well as privileged young Englishmen on the Grand Tour, regularly used the Alpine passes. But it was the need of European armies to cross Savoy which made its rulers powerful as the Gatekeepers of the Alps. It allowed the Duchy of Savoy to prosper and survive when all the other great duchies of Burgundy, Milan, Provence and Dauphiné disappeared at the end of the fifteenth century. Savoy successfully resisted the pressure from Protestant Geneva on its doorstep, but was the first country to succumb to

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