Laval is a common French, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps. Its inhabitants is called the Residents of Laval (Residents of Laval).

Geography

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

History

Administration

Demography

Monuments

Religious heritage

Vault of the Alleman, classified with the Historic buildings: fresco of the Virgin to the coat (going back to 1450 approximately)

Civil inheritance

Famous characters

The General of Gordes, governor of Dauphine and lord of Laval, who refused to take part in the massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Also, Joseph Paganon (1880-1937), grandfather of the current mayor was minister many times. He thus could carry out many works: road leading to the Alpe d' Huez, road of the balcony of Belledonne… Peu before its death, work of a road of Laval until Rivier d' Allemont (to reach Oisans) had largely begun, but were never finished, the war having stopped any advance. A place bears its name in the center of the villages of Alpe d' Huez and Laval.

Twinnings

Related articles

Common of Isere

External bonds

  • Vault of Alleman
  • LAVAL38 - the site independent of Laval in Belledonne

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