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Le Barrage de Malpasset

Source: www.beyond.fr. Posted on 11 February 2005.

In the hills above Fréjus, the Malpasset Dam or 'Barrage de Malpasset' broke in the night of 2 December 1959. More than 420 people were killed.

Malpasset translates roughly to 'passes badly' or 'does not go very well'. Although that turned out to be an appropriate name for the ill-fated dam, the area was really named after a local version of Robin Hood, one Gaspard de Besse who attacked all the passing stage coaches (diligences). He was said to take from the rich and give to the poor, although the rich could have been anyone with something worth stealing.

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