Charvieu-Chavagneux () is a
commune in the
Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.[department
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in southeastern
France.
The
Bourbre forms most of the commune's eastern border.
Population
Personalities
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Jean Djorkaeff, professional
football
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player
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Roger Girerd
Roger Girerd was a French mass murderer who killed 10 members of his family at a farm in Charvieu-Chavagneux on May 20, 1965, before committing suicide.
The crime was reported to be the deadliest mass murder by a single person in French history ...
, mass murderer
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Edward Stachura
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,
Polish
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poet, philosopher and prose writer
International relations
The commune is twinned with:
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Nauheim,
Germany
*
Nole, Italy
Nole is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northwest of Turin in the lower Canavese, at the foot of the Valli di Lanzo.
Nole borders the municipalities of Corio, Rocca ...
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Korosten,
Ukraine
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Vagharshapat,
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See also
*Communes of the Isère department
The following is a list of the 512 Communes of France, communes in the French Departments of France, department of Isère.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
Communes of Isère
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