Bourgoin-Jallieu (; frp, Brégon) is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

in the Isère department in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

. The city had 28,834 inhabitants in 2019 and lies 35 kilometres east-southeast of

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

. It was formed by the merger of the former communes Bourgoin and Jallieu in 1965.

Geography

Bourgoin is located 32 km from

, 17 km from St Priest, the first suburb and 70 km from

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- ...

. The town is next to the new town of

l'Isle-d'Abeau L'Isle-d'Abeau () is a commune in the department of Isère in southeastern France.Saint-Exupéry International Airport Saint-Exupéry may refer to: People * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviation pioneer and writer, author of ''The Little Prince'' * Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, writer, artist, and wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry * Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Exupéry (1 ...

. The

Bourbre The Bourbre () is a long river in the Isère and Rhône departments in central eastern France. Its source is in Burcin. It flows generally north-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Rhône, into which it flows at Chavanoz. Departments a ...

flows northwest through the commune and crosses the town. Neighbourhoods in the municipality include: * Champfleuri * Funas * Champaret * Boussieu * La Grive * Montbernier * Planbourgoin * Pré-Bénit * Mozas * l'Oiselet

Population

Bourgoin-Jallieu has a population of about 28,000. The population data given in the table and graph below for 1962 and earlier refer to the former commune of Bourgoin. A small town of about 3,500 inhabitants around 1800 and 7,000 around 1900, its population has rapidly increased since the 1960s. Its inhabitants are called ''Berjalliens''.

Personalities

* Jean-Pierre Andrevon, science fiction author *

Brahim Asloum Brahim Asloum ( ar, إبراهيم اسلوم, born 31 January 1979 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère) is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His Olympic win was France's first Olympic gold medal in boxi ...

, world boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist * Julien Bonnaire, rugby union player * Frédéric Dard, writer * Marc Cécillon, French rugby union player *

Simon Gachet Simon Gachet (born 14 October 1993) is a French racing driver who currently competes in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup for Tresor by Car Collection. Career Early career An avid rugby player as a young boy, Gachet was not heavily involv ...

, racing driver * Claudie Gallay, writer * Yvon Gattaz, businessman *

Amine Gouiri Amine Ferid Gouiri (born 16 February 2000) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker for Ligue 1 club Stade Rennais F.C., Rennes. Club career Lyon A player of Olympiqu ...

, footballer *

Seyhan Kurt Seyhan Kurt is a French-Turkish poet, writer, anthropologist and sociologist. Biography He was born in the commune of Bourgoin-Jallieu in Grenoble, France. He studied at the École de Jean Jaurès in Lyon. He studied painting in France and dr ...

, poet, writer * Stéphane Glas, rugby union player * Kévin Monnet-Paquet, footballer * Marcelle Pardé, resistance member * Guy Savoy, chef

Sport

Bourgoin-Jallieu is home to the professional

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

club CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, which competes in the Second Division French national championship. FC Bourgoin-Jallieu ( fr) is the local

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

team. Both the football and the rugby clubs play at the Stade Pierre Rajon. The 19th stage of the 2009

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

ran through the town.

International relations

Bourgoin-Jallieu is twinned with: * Bergisch Gladbach, Germany *

Conselice Conselice ( rgn, Cunsëls) is a town and ''comune'' of about 10,000 people located in the Po River Valley, part of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History Originally it was a Roman harbor (known in Latin as ''Caput Silicis'', lite ...

, Italy *

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, England, United Kingdom *

Rehau Rehau is a Town#Germany, town in the Hof (district), district of Hof, in Bavaria, Germany. The first documented name of Rehau was "Resawe" in the year 1234. Rehau is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, 12 km southeast of Hof, Germany, Hof, and 12 ...

, Germany *

Velsen Velsen () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal. On the north side of the North Sea Canal there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known a ...

, Netherlands * Wujiang (Suzhou), China

Culture

Gastronomy

Besides from being located in a region benefiting from the prestige of

's gastronomy, Bourgoin-Jallieu is also the birthplace of chef Guy Savoy. Some of the most famous dishes of the city are the following: * * brioche de Bourgoin * Isernoix * San-Antonio chocolate * Grande Dauphine * Galet du Bion * La Grise de Bazas

Literature

Bourgoin-Jallieu is the birthplace of Frédéric Dard, writer of the San-Antonio book series.

References

External links

* Communes of Isère Dauphiné {{Isère-geo-stub