Villard-Bonnot is a common French, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Its inhabitants is called the Villardiens (Villardiennes) .

Geography

Localities and variations

The current commune of Villard-Bonnot results from the regrouping of 3 boroughs:

• Brignoud upstream
• Villard-Bonnot in the center
• Lancey downstream

Communes bordering

• Versoud
• Froges
• Crolles
• Bernin
• Saint-Ismier
• Saint-Nazaire-the-Eymes
• Laval
• Holy-Agnes
• Saint-Mury-Monteymond
• Combe-of-Lancey

History

August 22nd, 2005, a rising of the brook going down from the lake of Crozet because of extensive damage with Lancey. The paper mill where 400 people work is entirely devastated and the road crossing the village was cut in two points, isolating during two days part of the inhabitants.

Administration

Demography

Monuments

Religious heritage

Civil inheritance

The museum of the hydro-electric power located with Lancey with the top of the paper mill still in activity celebrates the role of Aristide Bergès.

Famous characters

Aristide Bergès which “invented” the Hydro-electric power for its paper mills with Lancey.

Diden Berramdane was born in Brignoud in 1950. It makes a passage to Maghnia where it learns painting, the music inspired by arabo-Eastern art. Artist multidisciplinary, it currently directs the Theater of the Holy Vault Marie-of in-Low to Grenoble.

Twinnings

Religion

Catholic churches

• Parish Cross of Belledonne (Relay of Brignoud)

Protestant churches

• Protestant Church Évangélique of the Grésivaudan (Brignoud)

Related articles

Common of Isere

External bonds

Official site of the city

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