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Menthon Saint Bernard

Menthon-Saint-Bernard is situated on the eastern shore of the lake of Annecy.
In the south of Mont Veyrier and in the north of the Roc de Chere, the village benefits by a strategic situation near the massif des Bornes with the Dents de Lanfon.
Moreover, there are all of the nautical leisure.

Village’s history
About 1008, Saint-Bernard de Menthon was born in the castle built two centuries ago. He is the founder member of the Grand-Saint-Bernard’s hospice, and canonized in 1220, he is the patron saint of the mountain people.

The familly of Menthon, who is allways the castle’s owner, has arrived in 1190 from Bourgogne with Jean de Menthon.

The present castle was built at the XIIIe century, and he contains a lot of treasures: books, furnitures, wallpaper.

At the Xve century, the admiral Nicod de Menthon became governor of Nice, and later Guillaume de Menthon became lieutenant of Savoie.

At the XIXe century, René de Menthon was an important collector of plants and he was an artist.

At the Xxe century, Henri de Menthon was deputy in Haute-Saône, while François de Menthon was one of the founder member of the french Resistance (creator of the « Mouvement Liberté » at Annecy and Lyon), editor of a clandestine newspaper, minister of Justice of the provisional government after the Liberation, prosecutor at the tribunal of Nuremberg and finally founder member of the movement of the working catholic Youth..