Passage des Lombards (5)

Alas, the story of Joseph-Samuel Farinet could only end badly. On 17 April 1880, his body was discovered at the bottom of the Salentze gorge, a stream that flows down from the mountain above Saillon into the Rhône. It was never known whether he fell accidentally, starving and exhausted from the chase, or whether he was shot in the head by the police. A legend was born...



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Passage des Lombards (5)

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Alas, the story of Joseph-Samuel Farinet could only end badly. On 17 April 1880, his body was discovered at the bottom of the Salentze gorge, a stream that flows down from the mountain above Saillon into the Rhône. It was never known whether he fell accidentally, starving and exhausted from the chase, or whether he was shot in the head by the police. A legend was born...

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