Chambéry is the prefecture and largest city of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 59,172 as of 2020, while the population of the Chambéry metropolitan area was 255,790. The city is located at the foot of the French Alps between Bauges and Chartreuse mountains, making Chambéry an important railway and highway crossroads.
Image: Chambéry Belledonnes (Savoie)
Image: Chambéry Place St Léger
Image: Chateaunuit
Image: Toits centre ancien Chambéry (2014)
Franco-Provençal is a language within the Gallo-Romance family, originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Title page of a Franco-Provençal dictionary from Saint-Étienne, France (1896): "The Key to the Gaga Dialect".
Conference hall at the 37th Fête internationale de l'arpitan, Saint-Etienne (France), 2016.
Bilingual road sign (French-Valdôtain) in Introd, Aosta Valley.