ABSTRACT
The partition of local economic regions led in the first few years to widespread friction and the introduction of special economic benefits for the inhabitants of the zone between the 1860 boundary and the Alpine crest line. By the treaty of Turin the international boundary between the Piedmont territory of the House of Savoy and France was established in the higher Alpine valleys and persisted unchanged until the Peace Treaty of 1947. France continued to press for a crest-line boundary in the Alpes Maritimes but Italy would consider this only as part of a wider settlement of the international boundary. By this treaty the Alpine boundary was adjusted, wherever possible, to the line of highest peaks. By adopting the line of crests as a boundary in 1947, the Peace Treaty partitioned the former Briga commune, part of whose lands, as those of Tenda, lay on both flanks of the Alpes Maritimes.
