The Association

The Société d’Histoire et d’Archéologie d’Aime is a non-profit organization member of the Société Savante de Savoie.
Located in Aime, Haute-Tarentaise,  it aims to promote and preserve the historical heritage of the Tarentaise Valley through various activities:

  • Participate in the development of the ‘Des Pierres et des Hommes’, anarchaeological Museum
  • Develop the library of nearly 5,000 books
  • Organize conferences open to the general public, free admission
  • Plan trips around historical themes
  • Hold guided tour of local heritage
  • Monitoring potential archaeological discoveries

The association’s logo is a mascaron representing a Greek mask.
It comes from a Roman oil lamp on display at the ‘Des Pierres et des Hommes’ Museum, an archaeological site.

The Board of Directors

BureauTitre
Lionel DidotCoprésident
Pascal LailléCoprésident
Patrick GiveletVice-Président
Jacky DucTrésorier
Martine DidotSecrétaire
Hubert FavreTrésorier Adjoint
Yvette FraissardSecrétaire Adjoint
Membres du CA
Bruno Berthier
Agnès Counil-Gal
Godefroy De Miscault
Evelyne Grand
Yvette Jacquier
Florie Langlois
Bernard Simon-Chautemps
Fabien Thevenon

Aime (Latin: Axima) was the capital of the Roman province of the Graecian Alps (Latin: Alpe Graiæ).

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce our friends from the Société Valdotaine de Préhistoire et d’Archéologie.