MONT CENIS

MONT CENIS is an Alpine peak (12,000 ft.) on the Savoy-Piedmont frontier. It is one of the Cottian Alps, over which Napoleon constructed a pass 6884 ft. high in 1802-10, through which a tunnel 7½ m. long passes from Modane to Bardonnêche, connecting France with Italy. The railway tunnel was pierced (1857-70) at a cost of £3,000,000 and Napoleon's pass a tenth of the sum for the tunnel.