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Les Sept Laux

group of winter sports resorts located in the Alps

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ674302 ↗
Source-derived summary

Les Sept Laux is a group of three winter sports resorts of the Alps located in the Belledonne (Isère) about 35 km (22 mi) from Grenoble and 50 km (31 mi) from Chambery in the communes of Theys, Les Adrets and Le Haut-Bréda.

Les Sept Laux has two stations side valley of the Isère, (Prapoutel and Pipay) and one (Le Pleynet) on the other side of the massif.

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The public source identifies “Les Sept Laux” as group of winter sports resorts located in the Alps. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sept, Laux and group.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sept, Laux and group providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q674302. Authority coordinates are 45.256, 5.993. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 5 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Les Sept Laux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.