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Samoëns is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is the principal commune for the canton which bears its name. The town of Samoëns is located in the Vallée du Giffre (Giffre Valley) in the French Alps. ==Stonemasons== Stone has long been a traditional feature of the Upper Giffre Valley which is dotted with limestone quarries (hardness coefficient, 13). To supplement their income from farming, the men in the region used to work stone. In 1659, there were so many ''frahans'' (the local name for stonecutters and masons)〔 in Samoëns and their expertise was so well known that they set up a very famous brotherhood. It engaged in charity work, taking care of the sick and training young apprentices in its own school of draughtsmen, which had an extensive library. The members of the brotherhood of masons and stonecutters in Samoëns were contacted for leading construction projects. They worked with Vauban on his fortifications, were commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to build canals in Saint-Quentin, and worked in Givors and even further afield, in Poland, Louisiana and Australia. To ensure that they were not understood by outsiders when talking to each other, they used their own dialect, called ''mourmé''.〔J. Desormaux, "Mélanges savoisiens, VIII. L'argot des ramoneurs", (1912) 26 ''Revue de philologie française et de littérature'' p 77 (ISSN 12455733), (Gallica ), Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature et art, 8-X-4072, 2011 accessed 7 January 2013. "Le ''mourmé'', parlé à Samoëns, comme le ''mènedigne'' ou ''mannedigne'', en usage à Morzine et à Montriond, est l'argot propre aus ''frahans'', tailleurs de pierre et maçons de ces localités du Chablais." (''mourmé'', spoken at Samoëns, as with ''mènedigne'' or ''mannedigne'', in use at Morzine and at Montriond, is the argot of the ''frahans'', stonecutters and masons of these places in Chablais district.)〕 Evidence of their work can be seen all over the village, in its architecture. Even now, there are a number of stonecutters upholding the tradition in Samoëns and the brotherhood has become a cultural association, the ''Société des Maçons''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samoëns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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