M. Alexandrescu, V. Courtillot, L. Mouël, and J. , High-resolution secular variation of the geomagnetic field in western Europe over the last 4 centuries: Comparison and integration of historical data from Paris and London, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol.48, issue.B9, pp.20245-20258, 1997.
DOI : 10.1029/97JB01423

P. G. Appleby, N. Richardson, and P. J. Nolan, 241Am dating of lake sediments, Hydrobiologia, vol.242, issue.1, pp.35-42, 1991.
DOI : 10.1007/BF00050929

F. Arnaud, V. Lignier, M. Revel, M. Desmet, M. Pourchet et al., Flood and earthquake disturbance of 210Pb geochronology (Lake Anterne, NW Alps), Terra Nova, vol.14, issue.4, pp.225-232, 2002.
DOI : 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00413.x

F. Arnaud, M. Revel, E. Chapron, M. Desmet, and N. Tribovillard, 7200 years of Rh??ne river flooding activity in Lake Le Bourget, France: a high-resolution sediment record of NW Alps hydrology, The Holocene, vol.15, issue.3, pp.420-428, 2005.
DOI : 10.1191/0959683605hl801rp

J. Bakke, Ø. Lie, S. O. Dahl, A. Nesje, and A. E. Bjune, Strength and spatial patterns of the Holocene wintertime westerlies in the NE Atlantic region, Global and Planetary Change, vol.60, issue.1-2, pp.28-41, 2008.
DOI : 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.030

B. Vallve, M. Martin-wide, and J. , Secular climatic oscillations as indicated by catastrophic floods in the Spanish Mediterranean coastal area (14th?19th centuries), Climatic Change, vol.38, issue.4, pp.473-491, 1998.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1005343828552

F. Barletta, G. St-onge, J. E. Channell, and A. Rochon, Dating of Holocene western Canadian Arctic sediments by matching paleomagnetic secular variation to a geomagnetic field model, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol.29, issue.17-18, 2010.
DOI : 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.035

A. Barrera, M. C. Llast, and M. Barriendos, Estimation of extreme flash flood evolution in Barcelona County from 1351 to 2005, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, vol.6, issue.4, pp.505-518, 2005.
DOI : 10.5194/nhess-6-505-2006
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00299319

M. Barriendos, Climatic variations in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Maunder Minimum (AD 1675-1715): an analysis of data from rogation ceremonies, The Holocene, vol.7, issue.1, pp.105-111, 1997.
DOI : 10.1177/095968369700700110

B. D. Beierle, S. F. Lamoureux, J. M. Cockburn, and I. Spooner, A new method for visualizing sediment particle size distributions, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.27, issue.2, pp.279-283, 2002.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1014209120642

T. Holt, K. Jylhä, B. Koffi, J. Palutlikof, R. Schöll et al., Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections, Climatic Change, vol.81, pp.71-95, 2007.

G. Benito, A. Díez-herrero, and M. Fernández-de-villalta, Magnitude and frequency of flooding in the Tagus Basin (Central Spain) over the last millennium, Climatic Change, vol.58, issue.1/2, pp.171-192, 2003.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1023417102053

L. Bengtsson and K. I. Hodges, Storm Tracks and Climate Change, Journal of Climate, vol.19, issue.15, pp.3518-3543, 2006.
DOI : 10.1175/JCLI3815.1
URL : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.467.1118

M. Blaauw, Methods and code for ???classical??? age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences, Quaternary Geochronology, vol.5, issue.5, 2010.
DOI : 10.1016/j.quageo.2010.01.002

P. Blanchemanche, Crues historiques et vendanges en Languedoc m??diterran??en oriental : la source, le signal et l???interpr??tation, Arch??ologie du Midi m??di??val, vol.27, issue.1, pp.225-235, 2009.
DOI : 10.3406/amime.2009.1900

A. Blass, M. Grosjean, D. M. Livingstone, and M. Sturm, Signature of explosive volcanic eruptions in the sediments of a high-altitude Swiss lake, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.330, issue.D14, pp.35-42, 2008.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-007-9093-2

A. G. Bøe, O. Dahl, S. Lie, O. Nesje, and A. , Holocene river floods in the upper Glomma catchment, southern Norway: a high-resolution multiproxy record from lacustrine sediments, The Holocene, vol.202, issue.3, pp.445-455, 2006.
DOI : 10.1191/0959683606hl940rp

E. Funatsu, B. M. Kirstetter, P. E. Masson, F. Maynard, K. Richard et al., Cyclogenèses et précipitations intenses en région méditerranéenne:origines et caractéristiques, La Météorologie, vol.66, pp.18-28, 2009.

I. Bucur, The direction of the terrestrial magnetic field in France, during the last 21 centuries. Recent progress, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol.87, issue.1-2, pp.95-109, 1994.
DOI : 10.1016/0031-9201(94)90024-8

A. Buzzi and L. Foschini, Mesoscale Meteorological Features Associated with Heavy Precipitation in the Southern Alpine Region, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, vol.72, issue.2-4, pp.131-146, 2000.
DOI : 10.1007/s007030050011

C. Corona, J. L. Edouard, F. Guibal, J. Guiot, S. Bernard et al., Long-term summer (AD751-2008) temperature fluctuation in the French Alps based on tree-ring data, Boreas, vol.32, issue.2, pp.351-366, 2011.
DOI : 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00185.x
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01457751

M. Couteaux, La limite supérieure de la forêt et sa valeur de seuil, Actes du colloque de Perpignan, pp.139-159, 1991.

J. C. Crowley, G. Zielinski, B. Vinther, R. Udisti, K. Kreutz et al., Volcanism and the Little Ice Age, PAGES Newslettesr, vol.16, pp.22-23, 2008.

F. Dapples, A. F. Lotter, J. F. Van-leeuwen, W. O. Van-der-knapp, S. Dimitriadis et al., Paleolimnological evidence for increased landslide activity due to forest clearing and land-use since 3600 cal BP in the western Swiss Alps, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.27, issue.2, pp.239-248, 2002.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1014215501407

V. Roumazeille, J. Nomade, and F. Arnaud, North western Alps Holocene paleohydrology recorded by flooding activity in, France. Quaternary Science Reviews, vol.29, pp.2185-2200, 2010.

G. Delaygue and E. Bard, An Antarctic view of Beryllium-10 and solar activity for the past millennium, Climate Dynamics, vol.3, issue.Special issue, pp.2201-2218, 2011.
DOI : 10.1007/s00382-010-0795-1
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00646759

V. Ducrocq, O. Nuissier, D. Ricard, C. Lebeaupin, and T. Thouvenin, A numerical study of three catastrophic precipitating events over southern France. II: Mesoscale triggering and stationarity factors, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol.21, issue.630, pp.131-145, 2008.
DOI : 10.1002/qj.199
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/meteo-00260840

D. Enters, F. Arnaud, J. Poulenard, C. Giguet-covex, E. Malet et al., A Coupled Environmental Monitoring and Lake Sediment Study to Understand Factors Generating Torrential Floods in an Alpine Catchment (Giffre Valley, NW French Alps), Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol.11, pp.2009-8837, 2009.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00404027

K. Faegri and J. Iversen, Textbook of Pollen Analysis, 1989.

P. Francus, R. S. Bradley, M. B. Abbott, W. Patridge, and F. Keimig, Paleoclimate studies of minerogenic sediments using annually resolved textural parameters, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.9, issue.20, 1998.
DOI : 10.1029/2002GL015082

C. Frei and C. Schär, A precipitation climatology of the Alps from high-resolution rain-gauge observations, International Journal of Climatology, vol.12, issue.8, pp.873-900, 1998.
DOI : 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(19980630)18:8<873::AID-JOC255>3.0.CO;2-9

Y. Gallet, A. Genevey, L. Goff, and M. , Three millennia of directional variation of the Earth???s magnetic field in western Europe as revealed by archeological artefacts, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol.131, issue.1, pp.81-89, 2002.
DOI : 10.1016/S0031-9201(02)00030-4

A. Koutroulis, L. Marchi, S. Matreata, V. Medina, E. Preciso et al., A compilation of data on European flash floods, Journal of Hydrology, vol.367, pp.70-78, 2009.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00400570

C. Giguet-covex, F. Arnaud, J. Poulenard, J. R. Disnar, C. Delhon et al., Changes in erosion patterns during the Holocene in a currently treeless subalpine catchment inferred from lake sediment geochemistry (Lake Anterne, 2063 m a.s.l., NW French Alps): The role of climate and human activities, The Holocene, vol.21, issue.4, pp.651-665, 2011.
DOI : 10.1177/0959683610391320
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00576530

B. Wilhelm and J. J. Delannoy, Frequency and intensity of high-altitude floods over the last 3.5 ka in NW European Alps, Quaternary Research, vol.77, issue.1, pp.12-22, 2012.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00653347

R. Gilbert, S. Crookshanks, K. R. Hodder, J. Spagnol, and R. B. Stull, The Record of an Extreme Flood in the Sediments of Montane Lillooet Lake, British Columbia: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Assessment, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.68, issue.3, pp.737-745, 2006.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-005-5152-8

F. Giorgi and P. Lionello, Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region, Global and Planetary Change, vol.63, issue.2-3, pp.90-104, 2008.
DOI : 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.09.005

C. Giraudi, Late-Holocene alluvial events in the Central Apennines, Italy. The Holocene 15, pp.768-773, 2005.

E. D. Goldberg, Geochronology with lead-210, In: Radioactive Dating, pp.121-131, 1963.

J. Guiot, C. Corona, and . Escarsel, Growing Season Temperatures in Europe and Climate Forcings Over the Past 1400 Years, PLoS ONE, vol.32, issue.4, 2010.
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0009972.s018
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01116819

W. Haeberli, Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Parmafrost zwischen Flüelapass und Piz Grialetsch (Graubünden) Mitteilung der Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich 17, 1975.

E. L. Hamilton, COMPRESSIONAL???WAVE ATTENUATION IN MARINE SEDIMENTS, GEOPHYSICS, vol.37, issue.4, pp.620-646, 1972.
DOI : 10.1190/1.1440287

J. W. Hurrel, Decadal Trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional Temperatures and Precipitation, Science, vol.269, issue.5224, pp.676-679, 1995.
DOI : 10.1126/science.269.5224.676

R. Irmler, G. Daut, and R. Mäusbacher, A debris flow calendar derived from sediments of lake Lago di Braies (N. Italy), Geomorphology, vol.77, issue.1-2, pp.69-78, 2006.
DOI : 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.013

M. Jakob, M. Bovis, and M. Oden, The significance of channel recharge rates for estimating debris-flow magnitude and frequency, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol.1, issue.6, pp.755-766, 2005.
DOI : 10.1002/esp.1188

S. Juggins, C2 Version 1.5 User guide. Software for ecological and palaeoecological data analysis and visualisation, p.28, 2007.

A. Kieffer-weisse, Etude des précipitations exceptionnelles de pas de temps court en relief accidenté (Alpes Françaises), Méthode de cartographie des précipitations extrêmes, Thèse de doctorat, Institut National de Polytechnique, p.309, 1998.

A. Kieffer-weisse and P. Bois, Estimation de param??tres statistiques des pr??cipitations extr??mes dans les Alpes fran??aises, La Houille Blanche, vol.1, issue.1, pp.62-70, 2001.
DOI : 10.1051/lhb/2001009

B. Kirov and K. Georgieva, Long-term variations and interrelations of ENSO, NAO and solar activity, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, vol.27, issue.6-8, pp.441-448, 2002.
DOI : 10.1016/S1474-7065(02)00024-4

E. Lafargue, F. Marquis, and D. Pillot, Rock-Eval 6 applications in Hydrocarbon exploration, poduction, and soil contamination studies, pp.422-437, 1998.

L. Lanci, A. M. Hirt, A. F. Lotter, and M. Sturm, A record of Holocene climate in the mineral magnetic record of Alpine lakes: S??gistalsee and Hinterburgsee, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol.188, issue.1-2, pp.29-44, 2001.
DOI : 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00301-6

J. Luterbacher, E. Xoplaki, D. Dietrich, P. D. Jones, T. D. Davies et al., Extending North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions back to 1500, Atmospheric Science Letters, vol.8, issue.1-4, pp.114-124, 2002.
DOI : 10.1006/asle.2001.0044
URL : http://doi.org/10.1006/asle.2001.0044

M. Magny, C. Bégeot, J. Guiot, and O. Peyron, Contrasting patterns of hydrological changes in Europe in response to Holocene climate cooling phases, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol.22, issue.15-17, pp.1589-1596, 2003.
DOI : 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00131-8
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01457711

R. Merz and G. Blöschl, A process typology of regional floods, Water Resources Research, vol.247, issue.4, p.1340, 2003.
DOI : 10.1029/2002WR001952

C. Miramont, M. Jorda, and G. Pichard, Historische Entwicklung der Morphogenese und der Flussdynamik eines Mittelmeerflusses: Das Beispiel der mittleren Durance (S??d-Ost-Frankreich), G??ographie physique et Quaternaire, vol.52, issue.3, pp.381-392, 1998.
DOI : 10.7202/004855ar

E. Molinaroli, S. Guerzoni, G. De-falco, A. Sarretta, A. Cucco et al., Relationships between hydrodynamic parameters and grain size in two contrasting transitional environments: The Lagoons of Venice and Cabras, Italy, Sedimentary Geology, vol.219, issue.1-4, pp.196-207, 2009.
DOI : 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.05.013

M. Morellón, B. L. Valero-garcés, P. González-sampériz, T. Vegas-vilarrúbia, E. Rubio et al., Climate changes and human activities recorded in the sediments of Lake Estanya (NE Spain) during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.63, issue.270, pp.423-452, 2011.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-009-9346-3

A. Moreno, B. Valero-garcés, P. Gonzales-sampériz, and M. Rico, Flood response to rainfall variability during the last 2000??years inferred from the Taravilla Lake record (Central Iberian Range, Spain), Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.403, issue.3, pp.943-961, 2008.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-008-9209-3

T. Mulder, S. Migeon, B. Savoye, and J. C. Faugères, Inversely graded turibidite sequences in the deep Mediterranean: a record of deposits from flood-generated turbidity currents? Géo-Marine Letters 21, pp.86-93, 2001.

A. Nesje, O. Dahl, S. Matthews, J. A. Berrisdorf, and M. S. , A ~4500 years of river floods obtained from a sediment core in Lake Atnsjoen, eastern Norway, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.25, issue.3, pp.329-342, 2001.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1011197507174

A. S. Parris, P. R. Bierman, A. J. Noren, M. A. Prins, and A. Lini, Holocene paleostorms identified by particle size signatures in lake sediments from the northeastern United States, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.55, issue.1, pp.29-49, 2010.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-009-9311-1

R. Passega, Grain size representation by CM patterns as a geologic tool, Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol.34, issue.4, pp.830-847, 1964.
DOI : 10.1306/74D711A4-2B21-11D7-8648000102C1865D

A. Pauling, J. Luterbacher, C. Casty, and H. Wanner, Five hundred years of gridded highresolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation, 2006.

Y. Peng, C. Shen, W. C. Wang, and Y. Xu, Response of Summer Precipitation over Eastern China to Large Volcanic Eruptions, Journal of Climate, vol.23, issue.3, pp.818-824, 2010.
DOI : 10.1175/2009JCLI2950.1

C. C. Raible, M. Yoshimori, T. F. Stocker, and C. Casty, Extreme midlatitude cyclones and their implications for precipitation and wind speed extremes in simulations of the Maunder Minimum versus present day conditions, Climate Dynamics, vol.13, issue.4, pp.409-423, 2007.
DOI : 10.1007/s00382-006-0188-7

P. J. Reimer, M. G. Baillie, E. Bard, A. Bayliss, J. W. Beck et al., IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, Radiocarbon, vol.51, pp.0-50000, 2009.
DOI : 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.1252

J. L. Reyss, S. Schimdt, F. Legeleux, and P. Bonte, Large, low background well-type detectors for measurements of environmental radioactivity, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol.357, issue.2-3, pp.391-397, 1995.
DOI : 10.1016/0168-9002(95)00021-6

E. Sanchez-gomez, L. Terray, and B. Joly, Intra-seasonal atmospheric variability and extreme precipitation events in the European-Mediterranean region, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.31, issue.1, 2008.
DOI : 10.1029/2008GL034515
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/meteo-00372858

E. Schiefer, R. Gilbert, and M. A. Hassan, A lake sediment-based proxy of floods in the Rocky Mountain Front Ranges, Canada, Journal of Paleolimnology, vol.40, issue.2, pp.137-149, 2011.
DOI : 10.1007/s10933-010-9485-6

M. Stoffel, M. Bollschweiler, and M. Beniston, Rainfall characteristics for periglacial debris flows in the Swiss Alps: past incidences???potential future evolutions, Climatic Change, vol.90, issue.1, pp.263-280, 2011.
DOI : 10.1007/s10584-011-0036-6

M. Sturm and A. Matter, Turbidites and varves in Lake Brienz (Switzerland): deposition of clastic detritus by density currents. Special Publications of International Association of Sedimentologists 2, pp.147-168, 1978.

K. Tachikawa, O. Cartapanis, L. Vidal, L. Beaufort, T. Barlyaeva et al., The precession phase of hydrological variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool during the past 400??ka, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol.30, issue.25-26, pp.3716-3727, 2011.
DOI : 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.016
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01458311

I. F. Trigo and T. D. Davies, Decline in Mediterranean rainfall caused by weakening of Mediterranean cyclones, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.102, issue.18, pp.2913-2916, 2000.
DOI : 10.1029/2000GL011526

J. M. Vacquero, Solar Signal in the Number of Floods Recorded for the Tagus River Basin over the Last Millennium, Climatic Change, vol.66, issue.1/2, pp.23-26, 2004.
DOI : 10.1023/B:CLIM.0000043146.37662.de

B. Wilhelm, F. Arnaud, D. Enters, F. Allignol, A. Legaz et al., Does global warming favour the occurrence of extreme floods in European Alps? First evidences from a NW Alps proglacial lake sediment record, Climatic Change, pp.10-1007

J. D. Zijderveld, AC demagnetization of rock: analysis of results, Methods in Paleomagnetism, pp.254-286, 1967.