Editing Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise (section)

==History==
While the Tarentaise seems to have been populated as early as the 5th millennium B.C. by the [[Ceutrons]], there is no evidence of a human presence in the commune of Sainte-Foy before the Romans settled there around the 3rd century B.C. The Tarentaise was then successively occupied by the [[Burgundians]] (a Nordic tribe) until the 10th century, and then administered by the archbishops of [[Charlemagne]] who protected the populations as best they could against the invasions of the Saracens.
It seems that there was a place of worship in Sainte-Foy as soon as the region was evangelized by Jacques de Tarentaise in the 5th century, probably dedicated to Sainte-Madeleine, the second patron saint of the village, but the name of Sainte-Foy only appears in an official text in 1170. 

From the 13th century until the end of the 18th century, Sainte-Foy depended on the seigneury of Val d'Isère and included Tignes and the entire valley. Between 1391 and 1738, the parish was administered by three trustees installed in the districts of Les Villes, Tiers de la Thuile and Tiers du Milieu. On January 31, 1784, Joseph Joachin d'Allinges, the last lord of Val d'Isère, freed Saint-Foy.

The construction of the Tignes dam, which had been planned since the 1930s, was resumed in 1947 and inaugurated on July 4, 1953 by President Auriol. The post-war rural exodus affected Sainte-Foy as elsewhere and the village inexorably emptied of its population: by 1975, the village had only 593 inhabitants. From the 1960's on, several projects for winter sports resorts were proposed, until in 1982, the site of Bon Conseil was finally selected for a ski resort. After delays and opposition to scheme, Mayor Daniel Pascual, elected in 1987, finally opened the first three chairlifts in the winter of 1990/91, with the slogan "Sainte-Foy, j'y crois". After a chaotic start, the resort became popular in the 2000s, especially with English and Dutch tourists.