Chamouni, or Chamonix, a village in the dep. of Haute-Savoie, 33 m. SE. of Geneva, in a valley forming the upper basin of the Arve, famous for its beauty and for its glaciers; it is from this point that the ascent of Mont Blanc is usually made.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chamisso, Adalbert von * Chamousset