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 Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in southeastern

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. The

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forms most of the commune's eastern border.

Population

Personalities

* Jean Djorkaeff, professional

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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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poet, philosopher and prose writer

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