Vizille

Vizille
Commune
Château de Vizille
Coat of arms
Location of Vizille
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Coordinates: 45°04′32″N 5°46′24″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Oisans-Romanche
Intercommunality	Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Catherine Troton[1]
Area ^1	10.51 km^2 (4.06 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	7,293
• Density	690/km^2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	38562 /38220
Elevation	268–1,016 m (879–3,333 ft) (avg. 307 m or 1,007 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vizille (French pronunciation: [vizil];^[3] Arpitan: Veselye) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.^[4]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,593 —     1800 1,655 +0.55% 1806 1,927 +2.57% 1821 2,023 +0.32% 1831 2,750 +3.12% 1836 3,105 +2.46% 1841 2,907 −1.31% 1846 3,004 +0.66% 1851 3,125 +0.79% 1856 3,291 +1.04% 1861 3,546 +1.50% 1866 3,928 +2.07% 1872 3,903 −0.11% 1876 3,922 +0.12% 1881 3,904 −0.09% 1886 4,310 +2.00% 1891 4,252 −0.27% 1896 4,516 +1.21%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 4,951 +1.86% 1906 4,328 −2.65% 1911 4,102 −1.07% 1921 4,461 +0.84% 1926 4,512 +0.23% 1931 5,053 +2.29% 1936 5,160 +0.42% 1946 5,043 −0.23% 1954 5,977 +2.15% 1962 6,493 +1.04% 1968 6,882 +0.97% 1975 6,986 +0.21% 1982 7,162 +0.36% 1990 7,094 −0.12% 1999 7,465 +0.57% 2007 7,714 +0.41% 2012 7,647 −0.17% 2017 7,361 −0.76%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968-2017)[6]

Sights

Vizille is the home of the Musée de la Révolution française, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the French Revolution, housed since 1984 in the Château de Vizille, a historic monument.

The chateau, the grandest in the Dauphiné, was rebuilt in the form it retains today in the seventeenth century by François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, the last Connétable de France. A hundred hectares of greens, sheets of water and canals, and a hunting park of woodland pierced by rides and avenues surround the château, enclosed by a wall seven kilometres in circumference. The grounds are maintained by the Conseil général de l'Isère.^[7]

The site is especially suitable for its museum because, when the château had been purchased by a wealthy bourgeois of Grenoble, Claude Perier, who installed a manufacturer of printed fabrics in it, the three estates of the realm, convoked in Grenoble as the Assemblée des notables but forbidden to meet in the city, were welcomed here, 21 July 1788. They met in the salle du jeu de paume, where their deliberations opened a new chapter in the history of France.

See also

• Communes of the Isère department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Vizille : l'artiste Abraham Poincheval va passer 7 jours au sommet d'un mât, retrieved 13 March 2022
4. INSEE commune file
5. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vizille, EHESS (in French).
6. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
7. Comité parcs et jardins de France.