Montagne des Mémises at is a mountain in the Chablais Alps in Haute-Savoie, France near the Franco-Swiss border. It lies to the south of Lake Geneva between Thonon-les-Bains in France and the Rhone Valley in Switzerland. It dominates the communes of Évian-les-Bains and Thollon-les-Mémises, and provides a panoramic view over Lac Léman of the Jura Massif and the Franco-Swiss Alps.
It is an upright syncline composed of Lias Group and Malm (Late Jurassic) layers of limestone related to the folding from the Bonnevaux-Col du Pertuis fault to the west, and the Rhone Valley fault to the east.
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