71. In 1817 Percy Bysshe Shelley published his great lyric poem "Mont Blanc". He'd first caught sight of the it from Chamonix and decided that "I never knew I never imagined what mountains were before." But where exactly is Chamonix?
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France
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is a commune in the Prefecture of Haute-Savoie in the Alps of southeastern France. It has long been a popular winter holiday destination and the first Winter Olympics were held there in 1924. Ten kilometers south lies the mountain that took Shelley's breath away, Mont Blanc, the second highest peak in Europe. The peak lies on the French/Italian border, an intermittent source of friction between the two countries. Shelley published "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" a year after his tour.
"...Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky,
Mont Blanc appears-still, snowy, and serene;
Its subject mountains their unearthly forms
Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between
Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps..."
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