Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew
The Grenoble's Saint-Bartholomew's (a term used by historian François Boulet in his book was a series of assassinations and arrests of the main leaders of Grenoble's French Resistance, resistance to German occupation, between November 25 and 30, 1943. It was carried out by a team of Wartime collaboration, collaborationists under the orders of Jacques Doriot, Doriot and the Lyon French Popular Party, PPF led by Francis André. It was named after St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, the Protestant massacre of 1572. During the World War II, Second World War, while the north of France had been occupied by German troops since June 1940, the southern or Zone libre, free zone was also invaded in November 1942, except for the French Alps, Alps region, which found itself under a much less violent Italian occupation. This situation attracted many persecuted refugees and academics to Grenoble. The city's proximity to imposing mountain ranges and the ease with which Maquis (World War II), Maquis ...
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Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint-André, jardin de ville, banks of the Isère , arrondissement = Grenoble , canton = Grenoble-1, 2, 3 and 4 , INSEE = 38185 , postal code = 38000, 38100 , mayor = Éric Piolle , term = 2020–2026 , party = EELV , image flag = Flag of Grenoble.svg , image coat of arms = Coat of Arms of Grenoble.svg , intercommunality = Grenoble-Alpes Métropole , coordinates = , elevation min m = 212 , elevation m = 398 , elevation max m = 500 , area km2 = 18.13 , population = , population date = , population footnotes = , urban pop = 451096 , urban area km2 = 358.1 , u ...
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