Var (department) France into the Zone libre, which included the Var department. The French Fleet was sabotaged in Toulon Harbour to keep it from falling into German hands. The Maquis Vallier, a group of maquis resistance fighters, was active. On 15 August 1944 American and Free French forces land at Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Raphaël. The Free French fleet arrived at Toulon on 13 September. In the 1960s about one hundred thousand French citizens were repatriated from Algeria following the Algerian War of Independence and settled in the Var department. The department of Var has a surface area of 6,032 km, and 420
St. Tropez belt the wane of its popularity. St. Tropez belt The St. Tropez Belt is a belt made of curved flattened metal links, popular in France as a fashion accessory in the 1960s. The first St. Tropez belts were produced by members of a French commune and brought to the open market by Jayne Berrier and Claude Jean-Pierre LaCoudre. After a short time, the belts became an indispensable fashion item and were being bought and sold for very high prices. When members of the commune learned of this, they flooded the market with low-priced belts. Within a short time the belt's ubiquitousness