Saint Roch Cemetery (french: Cimetière Saint-Roch) is the first municipal
cemetery
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in the city of
Grenoble
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, France. It was blessed by the
bishop of Grenoble
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Claude Simon
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on 19 August 1810.According to web site of Association Saint-Roch ! Vous avez dit cimetière ? It is the largest cemetery in the city with .
Located on the rue du Souvenir, alongside the
Isère
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La Tronche
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In 1824, Sappey worked in Rogge's workshop in Paris before living in Egypt for two years with his friend Jean Achard and ...
,
Henri Ding
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Henri Ding was born in Grenoble. His most famous work is the ''Fontaine des trois ordres'' (''Fountain of the three orders'') on the place Notre-Dame in Grenoble. It paid tribute to ...
, Eustache Bernard,
Aimé Charles Irvoy
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and Urbain Basset are also buried here.
Many mayors of the city since the
French Revolution
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are buried in this cemetery, from Joseph-Marie de Barral,
mayor
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in 1790, to Albert Michallon, mayor from 1959 to 1965, as are the painters
Jules Flandrin
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and
Jean Achard
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Born in Voreppe, Isère, into a farming family, Jean Alexis Achard was self-taught and started his career as a clerk for a lawyer. He began his apprenticeship by copying pai ...
and
Camille Teisseire
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, representative for
Isère
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(1820–1824) and
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
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.
The most prestigious monument in the cemetery is the Saint Roch Chapel, built during the
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in 1826 to replace the old chapel of the same name, built in the 15th century near a hospital for lepers.