GENÈVRE, MONT, one of the principal summits of the Cottian Alps, rising to the height of 11,788 feet. It is crossed by a carriage-way, constructed by Napoleon I., at an elevation of 6353 feet. It is one of the contested routes by which Hannibal is said to have crossed the Alps.
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