Does the university from "Crimson Rivers" actually exist?
Does the university from "The Crimson Rivers" actually exist? The Wikipedia site mentions only "Guernon" in the French Alpes but a Google search did not help.
Is there an actual university in the French Alpes that you know about? I could not find anything that matches the search pattern of a relatively remote place in which the said incidents could have taken place.
Edit: The question is basically if there is any university in which said incidents could have taken place, i.e. an university that is remotely placed enough, in the Alpes for example OR if the university that the movie relates to actually exists (but has another name) or if the concept of an university in an Alpe valley is purely fiction. Of course I know that said incidents did not really take place (at least since Nazi Germany was defeated).
Best Answer
As commented before, the location of the ficitonal university is described in the book the movie is based on as '(starting from Grenoble)...passing Saint-Martin d’Hères, Saint-Martin d’Uriage ... and located at the foot of Mt. Belledonne...'(ad-lib translation from http://www.leprogres.fr/sortir/2014/07/15/les-rivieres-pourpres-font-leur-lit-en-rhone-alpes).
As there is no institute or campus nearby (the nearest one being in Grenoble, and also there's nothing much heading east except some ski ressorts), 'Guernon' is a plain fictional place with no possible existing equivalent.
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