Saint-Mury-Monteymond () 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 the

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

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History

In 1882,

Aristide Bergès Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. A proponent of liberation theology, Aristide was appointed to a parish in Port-au-Prince in ...

constructed a 1200 hp turbine in the neighbouring hamlet of La Gorge, at the foot of the Peak of

Belledonne Belledonne (french: link=no, La chaine de Belledonne, ) is a mountain range (french: link=no, massif) in the Dauphiné Alps (part of the French Alps) in southeast France. The southern end of the range forms the eastern wall of the mountains th ...

. Due to the steepness of the slope to the Lac Blanc, source of the river Vors, the first

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s were constructed. Because of the work of Aristide Bergès, Saint-Mury-Monteymond became the first village in France illuminated by electrical power.Cécile Gouy-Gilbert, Anne Dalmasso and Michael Jakob ''Alpes électriques''. Dire, 2011, p. 12. 978-2-9534279-2-9

Geography

Neighbouring communes are: * Sainte-Agnès, *

La Combe-de-Lancey La Combe-de-Lancey () is a commune in the Isère department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. The municipality covers an area of over 1,800 hectares. Located in the heart of the Belledonne, the town is bordered by Revel, S ...

, *

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, * Villard-Bonnot, * Saint-Jean-le-Vieux.

Population

Sights

* Ancient millhouse

References

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