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Lac du Bourget was made famous by several romantic poems of Alphonse de Lamartine, including Le Lac, [4] as well as by descriptions by Xavier de Maistre, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas. Panoramic view from Nivolet peak. Chambéry Airport is visible on the left, at the southern end of the lake, and Aix-les-Bains on the right
Lac de Grand-Lieu (French: [lak də gʁɑ̃.ljø]) is a lake located to the southwest of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique, France, and almost entirely in Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu. At an elevation of 5 m (16 ft), its surface area is 62.92 km 2 (24.29 sq mi), making it the largest lake in France in winter, but second after Lac du Bourget in ...
"Lac de Pannecière" or "Lac de Pannecière - Chaumard-sur-l'Yonne" was the first of the Seine's grands lacs to be built; it was inaugurated in 1949 and the Pannecière dam was commissioned in 1950. The lake results from the closure of the Yonne valley by a multiple-arch dam, [ nb 1 ] and is the only lake in Burgundy to be managed by the EPTB.
Lac de la Glière in the massif de la Vanoise; Lac Grand-Ban; Lac du Lait in the massif de la Vanoise; Lacs de la Leisse at the Vallon de la Leisse; Lac Long at the Col de la Vanoise; Lac le Lou in the massif de la Vanoise; Lac du Milieu in the massif des Grandes Rousses; Lac du Mont-Cenis in the massif du Mont-Cenis; Lac du Mont-Coua in the ...
Lake Der-Chantecoq (French: Lac du Der-Chantecoq, pronounced [lak dy dɛʁ ʃɑ̃tkɔk]) is situated close to the commune of Saint-Dizier in the departments of Marne and Haute-Marne. It is the largest artificial lake in France, [ 1 ] covering 48 km 2 (19 sq mi) with 350 million m³ of water.
Communauté d'agglomération Grand Lac is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Aix-les-Bains. It is located in the Savoie department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Aix-les-Bains. [1] The name Grand Lac refers to the Lac du Bourget.
WJCL-TV and WJCL-FM (96.5 FM) were both run by Lewis Broadcasting's executive vice president, J. Fred Pierce, from 1972 until the television station's first sale in 1999. Channel 22 dropped the "-TV" suffix from the callsign in 1981. In 1982, WJCL swapped affiliations with WSAV (due to the latter's action) and became an NBC affiliate.
Lakes Amance and du Temple are the two human-made lakes that together form the Aube reservoir. They are located in the Aube department, in the Grand Est region of France. The former is Europe's largest lake reserved for motorboating, and the latter is Europe's largest non-nautical lake. [3]