Arve Chamonix, Sallanches, Oëx, Cluses, Bonneville, Annemasse and Geneva. Arve The river Arve () flows for approximately 100 km (62 miles) through France, in the "département" of Haute-Savoie, and (for a few kilometers) in Switzerland. It is a left tributary of the Rhône. Rising in the northern side of the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, close to the Swiss border, it receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhône on the west side of Geneva, where its much higher level of silt brings forth a striking contrast
`Abdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West left Egypt towards Europe. He boarded the "SS Corsican", an Allan Line Royal Mail Steamer towards the port of Marseilles, France accompanied by secretary Mírzá Mahmúd, and personal assistant Khusraw. Memoirs that cover the periods in Egypt include `Abdu'l-Bahá's first European trip spanned from August to December 1911, at which time he returned to Egypt. During his first European trip he visited Lake Geneva on the border of France and Switzerland, Great Britain and Paris, France. The purpose of these trips was to support the Bahá'í communities in the West and to further spread his father's teachings, after sending representatives