Lake Geneva boats on the lake. The lake lies on the course of the Rhône. The river has its source at the Rhône Glacier near the Grimsel Pass to the east of the lake and flows down through the canton of Valais, entering the lake between Villeneuve and Le Bouveret, before flowing slowly towards its egress at Geneva. Other tributaries are La Dranse, L'Aubonne, La Morges, La Venoge, La Vuachère, and La Veveyse. Lake Geneva is the largest body of water in Switzerland, and greatly exceeds in size all others that are connected with the main valleys of the Alps. It is
French name of the name, being associated with claims to a place, but this is not always the case. The name de Gaulle, for example, is not a traditional French name with a "particule", but a Flemish Dutch name that evolved from a form of "De Walle" meaning "the wall". A popular misconception is that the "particule" "De-" included in the name always indicates membership of the nobility, that is to say, an original separated "de" that was linked to the name during the French revolution as "De-". That is sometimes true. Almost all nobility titles are of the form [title] <nowiki>[</nowiki>particle