Viry (French pronunciation: [viʁi]; Arpitan: Vry) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Viry is the birthplace of Justin de Viry, a Sardinian and French diplomat and politician.
He is still the only Savoyard to be buried in the Panthéon.
[3] During the World War, Viry was one of the border towns with Switzerland through which many Jews fleeing Nazism passed.
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