Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières


Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, 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.
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"

People

was born in this village. With Johann Heynlin, Fichet set up the first printing press in France in 1470.