Vizille (; frp, Veselye) 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 southeastern
France
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.
Population
Sights
Vizille is the home of the
Musée de la Révolution française
The Musée de la Révolution française (Museum of the French Revolution) is a departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the French Revolution.
I ...
, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...
, housed since 1984 in the
Château de Vizille, a historic monument.
The chateau, the grandest in the
Dauphiné
The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois.
In the 12th centu ...
, was rebuilt in the form it retains today in the seventeenth century by
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, the last ''
Connétable de France''. A hundred hectares of greens, sheets of water and canals, and a hunting park of woodland pierced by rides and avenues surround the château, enclosed by a wall seven kilometres in circumference. The grounds are maintained by the Conseil général de l'Isère.
Comité parcs et jardins de France
The site is especially suitable for its museum because, when the château had been purchased by a wealthy bourgeois of Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
, commune status = Prefecture and commune
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, Claude Perier
Claude-Nicolas Perier (28 May 1742 – 6 February 1801) was assured an important place in French history when he opened his Château de Vizille near Grenoble to the famous meeting of the estates of the Province of Dauphiné (21 July 1788) heraldin ...
, who installed a manufacturer of printed fabrics in it, the three estates of the realm, convoked in Grenoble as the '' Assemblée des notables'' but forbidden to meet in the city, were welcomed here, 21 July 1788. They met in the ''salle du jeu de paume'', where their deliberations opened a new chapter in the history of France.
See also
* Communes of the Isère department
References
Communes of Isère
Isère communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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