Vercors
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Vercors is an upland district in the south-east of France:
- Vercors Caves, a set of long caves
- Vercors PlateauVercors PlateauThe Vercors is a range of plateaux and mountains in the départements of Isère and Drôme in the French Prealps. It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac and Isère...
, a range of mountains and plateaus in the department of Isère, French Alps - Vercors Regional Natural ParkVercors Regional Natural ParkVercors Regional Natural Park is a protected area of forested mountains in the Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.-Geography:...
, a protected area of southeastern France - Maquis du VercorsMaquis du Vercors-In fiction:The maquis du Vercors is depicted and veterans act in Pierre Schoendoerffer's Above the Clouds 2002 feature film, and in the third season of the British TV programme Wish Me Luck, which first aired in 1990.-See also:...
, a section of the French Resistance to the Germans and Vichy régime during World War II, active in the district - Free Republic of Vercors (June-July 1944), a short lived Free government established by the French Resistance in 1944 (only lasting a few weeks)
- A pseudonym adopted by the French writer Jean BrullerJean BrullerJean Marcel Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure and Yvonne Paraf. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the Resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.Several of his novels have...