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Échirolles
Location of
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CountryFrance
ArrondissementGrenoble
CantonChief town of 2 cantons:
Échirolles-Est
Échirolles-Ouest
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
38151 /


Échirolles is a commune in the département of Isère and the Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is the second-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, and is adjacent to it on the south. In the 1999 census, Échirolles had a population of 32,806. Its inhabitants are called the Échirollois (feminine : Échirolloise(s)). The commune has a land area of 7.86 km² (3.035 sq mi).

History

Échirolles' Hôtel de ville (town hall) with Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People reproduced on its façade, taken in 2007

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 ((1838-1924), inventor of the first artificial textile fiber), before becoming universally famous. The process for manufacturing viscose was then patented by three British scientists, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan and Clayton Beadle, in 1891.

Famous Échirollois

Twin towns

45°08′N 5°43′E / 45.133°N 5.717°E / 45.133; 5.717

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