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Flooding of Le Fayet
- When
- night of 11 July 1892
- Where
- Le Fayet
On the night of 11 July 1892, the floodwaters bypassed the town center and struck the Thermal establishment in Le Fayet, resulting in approximately 200 deaths.
The flood passed through the hamlet of Bionnay and bypassed the town of Saint-Gervais. It flooded the Thermal establishment in the Parc Thermal in Le Fayet, which was a residential establishment at the time. The disaster killed approximately 200 people in its path, a figure reported by sources and consistent with the legacy record.
Sources
- Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Wikipedia, revision of 2026-03-30
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