Laffrey

Laffrey is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Its inhabitants is called Fredeyards.

Geography

Laffrey is a tourist locality, to 30 km in the south of Grenoble, famous for its lakes. Located at the septentrional margin of the Matheysine, the village is built on the contact system between the crystalline base - which levels in the depression of the Big lake and the Dead Lake - and the first triassic layers of the sedimentary cover, which form the base of the hills dominating these lakes of the west coast.

History

The village is famous for the meeting of Napoleon i, the March 7th 1815, with the return of the Isle of Elba, with the royal troops, charged to stop it. After his unloading with Juan-The-Pines, Napoleon took the road of the Alps (current the road Napoleon ) to gain Paris, road considered to be surer than the valley of the Rhone considered favorable to the royalist . He passes then by the Matheysin plate. After being to have spent the night of March 6th with Body, it passes by Walls then moves towards Grenoble. March 7th in front of Laffrey, on the plain is a battalion sent by Louis XVIII to stop it. Napoleon only advances ahead of of the troops on what from now on is named the " Meadow of Rencontre" and cleaned “ Soldiers, if it is one among you who wants to kill his Emperor, me here. ”

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Demography

Places and monuments

equestrian Statue of Napoleon in the “meadow of the Meeting”, at the edge of the Lake Laffrey.

the village of Laffrey sheltered a concession mining exploiting outcrops of lead and of zinc on a whole of 10 sites comprising of the galleries a mine shaft and various excavations on the surface are characterized by trenches of research. According to the data of BRGM the first owner of the site was the equatorial Company of the mines starting from January 1st 1846 then of January 1st 1847. Always according to the data of BRGM one of the sites was exploited by the Bornettes mines starting from January 1st, 1846 until 1908 then by the equatorial Company of the mines until 1957. The whole of the concession will be taken again by the company Alcatel which will decide on a setting in total safety of the site in 1999. The permanent closure will take place in 2000 with the setting in safety of the site. Nearly a hundred workers will have worked on this concession which produced: 2000 tons of zinc and lead ore.

Slope of Laffrey or Descent of Laffrey , long portion of RN 85 with strong declivity and relatively right-hand side which crosses the communes of Laffrey, Saint-Pierre-of-Message and Our-Lady-of-Message and finishes in steep turn before the bridge crossing the Romanche and the entry in Vizille. This road very accidentogene was the place of three of the most fatal accidents in France:

Personality related to the commune

Napoleon

See too

Articles of Wikipédia

Common of Isere
: Old communes of Isere
Lakes Laffrey
Trunk road 85

External bonds

Laffrey on the site of the national geographical Institute
Laffrey on the site of INSEE
Laffrey on the site of Quid
Localization of Laffrey on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Laffrey on Mapquest

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