Mer de Glace [Fr.,=sea of ice], glacier (3.5 mi/5.6 km long; 16 sq mi/41 sq km), Haute-Savoie dept., E France, on the northern slope of Mont Blanc. It is formed by the junction of three smalle...

Mont Blanc, Alpine massif, on the French-Italian border, SE of Geneva. One of its several peaks, also called Mont Blanc (15,771 ft/4,807 m), is the highest peak in France and the second highes...

Stavisky Affair, financial and political scandal that shook France in 1934. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a swindler associated with the municipal pawnshop of Bayonne, sold huge quantities of wort...

Sites of the Modern Olympic GamesSummer GamesYearSite1896Athens, Greece1900Paris, France1904St. Louis, Mo.1908London, England1912Stockholm, Sweden1920Antwerp, Belgium1924Paris, France1928Amste...

Alps, great mountain system of S central Europe, c.500 mi (800 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, curving in a great arc from the Riviera coast on the Mediterranean Sea, along the borders of...

Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C., the contes...