Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Excursions Around Aix-Les-Bains
In the Middle Ages the Counts of Savoy with their seat at Chambfiry, 14 k. S of aix-les-bains, dominated the province. They grew in power, and one, as Duke Of Piedmont in northwestern Italy, transferred his capital to Turin in 1577. Nearly three centuries later Victor Emmanuel of the same family, having with the assistance of France expelled the Alistrians from the province of Lombardy, became King of Italy; Savoy, which had been incorporated into France by the Convention of 1792 and remained French until the defeat of Napoleon I in 1815 allowed its return to Italian domination, was finally in 1860 ceded to France in recompense for the aid which that country had given to Italy against Austria, and the cession was confirmed by an almost unanimous vote of the Savoyards.
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