Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières

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Coordinates: 46°00′02″N 6°23′46″E / 46.000556, 6.396111

Commune of Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Location
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (France)
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Administration
Country France
Region Rhône-Alpes
Department Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement Bonneville
Canton Bonneville
Mayor Bernard Caullireau
Statistics
Elevation 591 m–2,408 m
(avg. 732 m)
Land area¹ 53.42 km²
Population²
(1999)		 870
 - Density 16.3/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 74212/ 74130
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France.

Guillaume Fichet (1433-ca.1480) was born in this town. With Johann Heynlin, Fichet set up the first printing press in France in 1470.

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