Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières

Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières (French pronunciation: [lə pəti bɔʁnɑ̃ le ɡlijɛʁ]), commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

On 1 January 2019, it was merged with its neighbour village Entrement to form the new commune of Glières-Val-de-Borne.

[2] Petit Bornand has a number of dairy farms, tourist accommodations and secondary residences.

It is in the area which is authorised to produce the named soft cheese "roblochon"[1] Guillaume Fichet (1433-c. 1480) was born in this village.

With Johann Heynlin, Fichet set up the first printing press in France in 1470.