Échirolles

Échirolles
Échirolles
Commune
	Échirolles town hall with Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People reproduced on its façade
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 45°08′37″N 5°43′06″E / 45.1436°N 5.7183°ECoordinates: 45°08′37″N 5°43′06″E / 45.1436°N 5.7183°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Échirolles
Intercommunality	Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Renzo Sulli
Area 1	8 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	36,961
• Density	4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	38151 /38130
Elevation	217–395 m (712–1,296 ft) ; (avg. 237 m or 778 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Échirolles (French pronunciation: [eʃiʁɔl]; Arpitan: Ècherôles) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.

It is the second-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, and is adjacent to it on the south.

History[]

Former industrial village, the majority of its inhabitants worked in the viscose factories, a fabric which was invented in Échirolles in 1884 by French scientist and industrial Hilaire de Chardonnet, before becoming universally famous. The process for manufacturing viscose was then patented by three British scientists, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan and , in 1891.

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1836	735	—
1841	702	−0.91%
1846	715	+0.37%
1851	639	−2.22%
1856	634	−0.16%
1861	615	−0.61%
1866	642	+0.86%
1872	652	+0.26%
1876	682	+1.13%
1881	619	−1.92%
1886	679	+1.87%
1891	633	−1.39%
1896	600	−1.07%
1901	574	−0.88%
1906	582	+0.28%
1911	572	−0.35%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1921	597	+0.43%
1926	838	+7.02%
1931	2,765	+26.97%
1936	2,520	−1.84%
1946	2,825	+1.15%
1954	3,762	+3.65%
1962	7,111	+8.28%
1968	15,429	+13.78%
1975	33,288	+11.61%
1982	37,360	+1.66%
1990	34,435	−1.01%
1999	32,806	−0.54%
2007	35,383	+0.95%
2012	35,826	+0.25%
2017	36,840	+0.56%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Personalities[]

Thernand Bakouboula footballer
Seynabou Benga handball player
Stephane Biakolo footballer
Vincent Clerc (b. 1981), rugby footballer of Stade Toulousain and of the French national team.
Mélissa Theuriau (b. 1978), journalist.
Calogero (b. 1971), pop/rock singer, composer and songwriter.
Laure Péquegnot (b. 1975), skier.
(b. 1968), film director and scenarist.
David di Tommaso (1979–2005), football player.
Sami Bouajila (b. 1966), actor.
Guilbaut Colas (b. 18 June 1983), freestyle skier.
David Lazzaroni (b. 4 February 1985), ski jumper.
Sandrine Aubert (b. 6 October 1982), alpine skier.
Jonathan Tinhan footballer

International relations[]

Échirolles is twinned with:

Grugliasco, Italy
Honhoue, Benin
Novovolynsk, Ukraine
Kimberley, England

References[]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Échirolles, EHESS. (in French)
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE