Frejus

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Fréjus can also refer to the Fréjus Road Tunnel and the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in the Alps.

Roman ruins, aqueduct

Fréjus is a coastal town, Catholic bishopric and commune, in the Var département, in southern France. Population (2004): 50,536.

On December 2, 1959, the Malpasset Dam, on the Reyran River above Fréjus, ruptured, killing over 400 people.

[Fréjus Cathedral:[link]]

See also

• Malpasset
• Diocese of Fréjus

Sources, references and external links

• [Official website]
• [Tourism website] (in French)
• [Article on the Malpasset Dam]
• [Website on the Saint Léonce de Fréjus with the remains of a 5th century Merovingian baptistery] (in French)
• Gallia Christiana, Nova (1715), I, 418-447, 739-762; Instrumenta, 82-85, 129-131; ALBAN'S, Gallia Christiana novissima (Montbéliard, 1899); DUCHESNE, Fastes Episcopaux, I, 269-276; ESPITALIER, Les évêques de Fréjus (Draguignan, 1891-1898); LAMBERT, Histoire de Toulon (Toulon, 1892); DISDIER, Description historique du diocèse de Fréjus, d'aprés les manuscrits de Girardin et d'Antelmy (Draguignan, 1872); FOUGEIRET, Sanctuaires anciens et modernes de la Très-Sainte Vierge dans les diocèses de Fréjus et de Toulon (Toulon, 1891); CHEVALIER, Topo-bibl., 1240, 3125.

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