Mont-Dauphin (; oc, Montdaufin) is a

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in the

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department in southeastern

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. At the confluence of Durance and

Guil The Guil (french: le Guil) is a long river in the Hautes-Alpes ''département'', southeastern France. Its drainage basin is .Queyras The Queyras ( oc, Cairàs) is a valley located in the French Hautes-Alpes, of which the geographical extent is the basin of the river Guil, a tributary of the Durance. The Queyras is one of the oldest mountain ranges of the Alps, and it was one of ...

valleys, Mont-Dauphin is one of the many places fortified by Vauban in the second half of the 17th century. In 2008, the ''place forte'' of Mont-Dauphin, was listed as a

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, as part of the "

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