Vizille

French commune
nomcommune=Vizille
Château de Vizille
région=Rhône-Alpes
département=Isère
arrondissement=Grenoble
canton=Vizille (chief town)
insee=38562
cp=38220
maire=Mr. Alain Berhault
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm= Communauté de Communes du Sud Grenoblois
longitude= 05.4921
latitude=45.0445
alt moy=307 m
alt mini=268 m
alt maxi=1,016 m
hectares=1,051
km²=10.51
sans=7,465
date-sans=1999
dens=710
date-dens=1999

Vizille is a commune of the Isère "département" in France.

The village of Vizille is home to the Musée de la Révolution Française, a rich depository of archival and rare materials devoted to the French Revolution, housed since 1984 in the Château de Vizille, a "Monument Historique". The library stacks are accessible to researchers (by appointment). The Museum grounds feature extensive landscaping and formal gardens.

The Château, the grandest in the [Dauphiné, was rebuilt in the form it retains today in the seventeenth century by François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, the last "connétable" of 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 kilometers in circumference. The grounds are maintained by the Conseil général de l'Isère. [ [http://www.parcsetjardins.fr/rhone_alpes/isere/parc_du_ch_teau_de_vizille-761.html 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, Claude Perier, who installed a manufacture 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.

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