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Ville-la-Grand is a commune of the Haute-Savoie ''département'', in France. (...)

Gaillard is a commune of the Haute-Savoie ''département'', in France. Population (1999): 9,949. Gaillard is a family surname commonly used in France that originated from the commune of Gaillard commune of the Haute-Savoie ''département'', in France. What makes Gaillard noticeable is its proximity to Geneva. Gaillard is a on the Swiss border (...)

The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, John Polidori and others in 1816 in which the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre were laid. This meeting is retold in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Haunted, where the frame plot takes place in a modern version of the (...)